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How old is your dog?
It's often said that one dog year equals seven human years. But is it true? Tim Harford and Ben Carter unveil the More or Less Dogulator. Plus, 15 distant relatives of England’s King Richard III are …
Published on 12 years, 7 months ago
How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years
Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers being used in the political battle about the UK and its membership of the EU. And, he looks at whether it’s true that more war veterans kill themselves than die…
Published on 12 years, 7 months ago
The Maths of Mozart and Birds
Birds + windows =? The BBC Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2 million birds die crashing into window panes every day in the US. Tim Harford finds this, well, unbelievable. Mar…
Published on 12 years, 7 months ago
Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
Birds + windows =? The BBC Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2 million birds die crashing into window panes every day in the US. Tim Harford finds this, well, unbelievable. Mar…
Published on 12 years, 7 months ago
Are Man Utd a one-man team?
More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked off to work out whether it’s true that Van Persie’s really single-handedly won Manchester United’s the League? And …
Published on 12 years, 8 months ago
Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous economic paper that has been used to make the case for austerity cuts. In 2010, two Harvard economists published an acad…
Published on 12 years, 8 months ago
Thatcher in numbers
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, was Britain’s first female prime minister and one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century. She was a pioneer of free market ec…
Published on 12 years, 8 months ago
Communicating Risk
It’s the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city of L’Aquila in Italy and which led to the conviction of six scientists and an official who failed to predict the disaster. Scie…
Published on 12 years, 8 months ago
That's not much gold
What if a super-villain took control of the world's gold a melted it in to a cube? How big would it be? Wesley Stephenson finds out.
Published on 12 years, 8 months ago
Can big data save lives?
With an avalanche of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used to change our lives and does it have a darker side?
Published on 12 years, 9 months ago