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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
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams
Spreadsheet disasters
The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
We examine a study that says humans and livestock dominate mammal life on Earth
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
We investigate the impact of our use of toilet paper on the world鈥檚 forests.
How we shook the world of very large numbers
How an edition of More or Less influenced the naming of enormous numbers
Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted?
Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Are there more Irish pubs in Ireland than in all other countries combined?
