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    Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

    We look at a new UK study that links being breastfed as a baby with academic achievement.

  2. Counting Hunger in India

    Is it true that hunger has worsened in India?

  3. A short history of data

    How the evolution of data over centuries has shaped today鈥檚 world

  4. Are young people more single than ever before?

    How to define and measure being single 鈥� and are dating apps to blame?

  5. Detecting bad science with data

    Uncovering fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science

  6. Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

    We examine a social media post that claims to outline rates of divorce across the world.

  7. Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

    We ask why average life expectancy in America is falling so quickly.

  8. How much is the Coronation crown worth?

    King Charles will be anointed with the St Edward鈥檚 Crown 鈥� but what is its true value?

  9. The Pentagon leaks and Fox News

    Why did Tucker Carlson say far more Ukrainian troops than Russian are dying in the war?

  10. How accurate is baby's due date?

    This week we investigate how a baby's due date is calculated

  11. How to better understand and explain numbers

    Professor Oliver Johnson discusses the use of statistics in the pandemic and in life.

  12. A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras鈥� Theorem?

    Two high school students say they鈥檝e discovered a new trigonometric proof for the theorem

  13. Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

    We debunk viral claims that incorrectly link covid-19 vaccines with a risk of miscarriage

  14. Silicon Valley Bank: A very modern bank run

    How do bank runs happen?

  15. Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

    We investigate the claim that fungal infections are a much bigger killer than malaria.

  16. Does British jewellery contain stolen Brink鈥檚-Mat gold?

    We ask what happened to the 3 tonnes of pure gold after the infamous robbery of 1983

  17. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee

  18. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams

  19. Spreadsheet disasters

    The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes

  20. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.

  21. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    We examine a study that says humans and livestock dominate mammal life on Earth

  22. Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

    We investigate the impact of our use of toilet paper on the world鈥檚 forests.

  23. How we shook the world of very large numbers

    How an edition of More or Less influenced the naming of enormous numbers

  24. Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted?

    Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

  25. Irish pubs - a global numbers game

    Are there more Irish pubs in Ireland than in all other countries combined?

  26. What are the numbers of 2022?

    Tim Harford and guests on the numbers that help tell the big stories of the year.

  27. Qatar World Cup: The pressure of penalties

    We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot

  28. Why is data so important in determining how we live?

    Tim Harford on how good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics

  29. World Cup in Qatar: How many migrant workers have died?

    Examining the wildly varying estimates of deaths in the run-up to the tournament in Qatar

  30. When do food shortages become a famine?

    With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine

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