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Vaccine numbers
How much protection will a new Covid-19 vaccine give?
How deadly is Covid 19?
Why there isn鈥檛 one single death rate.
Asymptomatic Covid-19 cases
How many Covid-19 cases are truly asymptomatic?
US election: facts or fiction
Tim Harford hears about the sheer volume of false claims made in the campaign.
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
This year鈥檚 Nobel memorial prize winners for economics and their work on auction theory.
A short history of probability
Gamblers, millionaires and annuities
Trump鈥檚 misleading 'fact' about the Covid-19 death count in the US
We examine a suspect stat from the US and an eye-popping claim about volumising mascara.
Caffeine and pregnancy
Do coffee and pregnancy mix?
The magical maths of pool testing
Could pool testing hold the key to ramping up Covid-19 testing?
Sex workers in the 18th century and jellyfish
Did one in five women in 18th century London made a living selling sex?
