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    Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

    Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?

  2. Are women 32% more likely to die after operations by a male surgeon?

    Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans.

  3. QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

    Fact checking a QAnon claim.

  4. Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

    An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.

  5. How much plastic is in the ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

    Can two social media stars remove $30million worth of plastic from the ocean?

  6. Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe鈥檚?

    Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?

  7. Numbers of 2021

    The most significant numbers of the year

  8. The psychological economics of gift giving

    How to buy gifts people actually want.

  9. Does catching Covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

    Infection vs injection: Could Covid infection provide 27 times more protection?

  10. Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

    Is it true wearing a mask reduces Covid-19 incidence by 53%?

  11. Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

    A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.

  12. A TikTok tale

    How a well-meaning TikTok disrupted 4,600 studies.

  13. The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

    Can a vegan croissant really be worse for the environment than a bacon roll?

  14. Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

    Why the same data can produce different conclusions.

  15. The art of counting

    Tim Harford talks to author Deborah Stone about her book which explores counting

  16. The numbers behind Squid Game

    Could you survive a round in Squid Game, and how many have watched it?

  17. The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

    A look at the work of this year鈥檚 winners of the most prestigious prize in economics.

  18. Vaccinating the world

    How countries鈥� vaccination rates measure up 鈥� and the trickiness of comparing them.

  19. Twenty years of More or Less

    A look back at our origins, plus the usual mix of numerical nous and statistical savvy.

  20. The Gender Pay Gap

    Can Machiavelli help women get a better deal in the workplace?

  21. Is it easy being green?

    Expensive electricity, inadequate insulation, and a tale of tumbling trees.

  22. Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?

    A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks

  23. Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut

    Coronavirus checked, mask use measured, and a minister's claim questioned.

  24. How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

    Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws

  25. Death, Tax and Dishwashers

    Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?

  26. Is immunity from vaccines waning?

    How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.

  27. Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

    How worried should we be about antibodies? Plus food that shortens life.

  28. The bill for Afghanistan

    Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?

  29. Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

    Has Brexit caused a fall in lorry drivers? Plus policing Extinction Rebellion.

  30. Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

    What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?

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