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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

Do breastfed babies become more intelligent adults?

• 10 mins

How Safe is Flying?

Following the Germanwings A320 tragedy, are plane crashes becoming more common?

• 10 mins

Maths and Chess

Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked?

• 10 mins

The Ignorance Test

Can you pass world health expert Hans Rosling鈥檚 Ignorance Test?

• 10 mins

A Liver Transplant

A question from a listener about a living transplant

• 10 mins

Xenophobia in South Africa

Are international migrants stealing jobs?

• 10 mins

Nuns on the Rise

Are more women getting in the habit?

• 10 mins

Princess Charlotte

Assessing the economic benefit of a new princess.

• 10 mins

Big Numbers

How a simple computer bug has led to explosions, missing planes and more

• 10 mins

Death Row

Is it true that for every nine people executed in the US, there is one person exonerated?

• 10 mins

John Nash

The life and achievements of the mathematician John Nash

• 10 mins

Qatar Migrant Worker Deaths

Is the World Cup really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar?

• 10 mins

Global Footprint

Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources?

• 10 mins

Horoscope Health

Can your horoscope predict which diseases you will develop?

• 10 mins

Biggest Movies

Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?

• 10 mins

More or Less: The Greek Odyssey

Tim Harford explains the Greek economic crisis with a little help from 蜜芽传媒r鈥檚 Odyssey

• 10 mins

Greece Special

Tim Harford looks at the numbers to tell the story of the Greek crisis.

• 28 mins

Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?

• 10 mins

Life Expectancy

How long might you live?

• 10 mins

Counting Foreign Fighters

How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?

• 10 mins

Wrestlers: Dying Too Young?

Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?

• 10 mins

Worm Wars

Are mass deworming projects a good idea?

• 10 mins

The Elliptical Pool Table

The geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.

• 9 mins

China Stock Market Crash

The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really 鈥楤lack Monday鈥�?

• 9 mins

Queuing Backwards

Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.

• 9 mins

How Many is Too Many Bananas?

Should population density affect refugee movements? How many bananas are too many?

• 9 mins

The Rise of the Giants?

Are rugby players getting bigger and bigger?

• 9 mins

How Reliable is Psychology Science?

How reliable are psychological science studies? Tim Harford finds out.

• 9 mins

Football鈥檚 Red Card Clich茅

Is it harder to play football against ten men? Tim Harford finds out

• 9 mins

Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

Are tall people really more likely to get cancer? Ruth Alexander looks at a new study

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