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Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Explaining maths without Numbers
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Too fast for Minecraft?
In praise of Covid Data
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Sainthood and Cup draws
Why are US Covid cases falling?
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
How much Covid in the World?
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Glasgow vs Rwanda
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
The Rapid Test Row
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Ants and Algorithms
Numbers of the year: Part two
Numbers of the year: Part one
The economics of a Covid Christmas
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Tracking Covid 19
Inviting Covid for Dinner
Vaccine numbers
How deadly is Covid 19?
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
US election: facts or fiction
US election: facts or fiction
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
A short history of probability
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
The magical maths of pool testing
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Covid plasma therapy
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
Belarus’ contested election
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Melting Antarctic ice
Covid in Africa
Data in the time of cholera
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
Sweden’s lockdown lite
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
Who Should be Quarantined?
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
Keep your distance
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
Covid-19 fatality rate
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
Climate change and birdsong
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
Should you wear a face mask?
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
The Risk
Coronavirus Special
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
How much heat do you lose from your head?
How much heat do you lose from your head?
Netflix vs the environment
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
Tracking terror suspects