Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
As some countries rapidly roll out vaccination programmes, there have been concerns that increases i
June saw a brutal heatwave shatter a number of all-time temperature records in Canada and the Northw
The Delta Variant was first identified in India, fuelling a huge wave of cases and deaths. It is now
On the day the Government plans to drop the remaining Covid restirictions, Tim Harford and the More
In recent months, Twitter has rarely been out of the headlines in Nigeria. After it deleted a tweet
To some on the internet, the cheap anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is a potential wonder drug that co
The UK’s Covid cases are still rising and Scotland is being hit particularly hard - so are we speedi
This year sees the delayed 400th anniversary celebrations of the Mayflower voyage, an event seen as
The Delta variant is behind the big increase in the number of new Covid 19 cases in the UK since Apr
To find out where a virus comes from, researchers compare it to other viruses to try to trace its or
The official number of deaths attributed to Covid 19 around the world in the whole of 2020 is 1.88 m
Steven Johnson, author of Extra Life, tells the fascinating history of life expectancy, and the extr
Covid cases are rising again in the UK – should we be worried about a third wave? Tim Harford speaks
Health Minister Matt Hancock recently told the House of Commons that: “The number of vaccinations ha
Popular Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has sparked a lot of debate recently, including some controve
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Tim Harford interviews Milo Beckman - a young mathematician, still in his twenties, who has written