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    Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?

  2. Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

    The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis

  3. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working 鈥� how come?

  4. Are girls starting puberty earlier?

    We look into a claim that the age of girls鈥� puberty is falling rapidly

  5. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    We debunk a claim the government is spending 拢38,000 per household on the jubilee.

  6. Noisy decisions

    Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on how 'noise' impacts decision making

  7. Germany鈥檚 excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

    Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?

  8. Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions?

    Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress.

  9. Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    We look at the World Health Organisation鈥檚 latest estimates of the pandemic鈥檚 death toll

  10. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans

  11. Sweden鈥檚 polarising pandemic response

    Has Sweden鈥檚 pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster鈥r something in-between?

  12. Understanding India through data

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

  13. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

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

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

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

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

    How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

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

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

  17. Pizza and nuclear war

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

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

    Fact checking Boris Johnson鈥檚 claim

  19. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine

  20. Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

    How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?

  21. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

  22. Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

    Jabs for five- to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels.

  23. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    What does the data tell us?

  24. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

  25. Testosterone and sport

    Trans women鈥檚 participation in elite sport

  26. The prime minister in statistical bother

    Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.

  27. Placebo: Can you fool your brain?

    Looking at the power of expectations

  28. Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

    How fast is our economy growing? And what is happening with Omicron reinfections?

  29. Fertility rates: Baby boom or bust?

    Fertility rates around the world

  30. Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

    Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?

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