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    Understanding India through data

    What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?

  2. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

    How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?

  3. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.

  4. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

  5. Why has Hong Kong鈥檚 Covid wave been so bad?

    What鈥檚 behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?

  6. Pizza and nuclear war

    How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.

  7. Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

    Fact checking Boris Johnson鈥檚 claim

  8. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine

  9. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

  10. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    What does the data tell us?

  11. Testosterone and sport

    Trans women鈥檚 participation in elite sport

  12. Placebo: Can you fool your brain?

    Looking at the power of expectations

  13. Fertility rates: Baby boom or bust?

    Fertility rates around the world

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

    Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?

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

    Fact checking a QAnon claim.

  16. 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?

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

    Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?

  18. Numbers of 2021

    The most significant numbers of the year

  19. The psychological economics of gift giving

    How to buy gifts people actually want.

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

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

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

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

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

    A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.

  23. A TikTok tale

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

  24. The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

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

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

    Why the same data can produce different conclusions.

  26. The art of counting

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

  27. The numbers behind Squid Game

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

  28. 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.

  29. Vaccinating the world

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

  30. The Gender Pay Gap

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

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