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    Deforestation in Brazil

    Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?

  2. Climate deaths, Austerity, Pet food

    Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.

  3. Amazon forest fires

    Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?

  4. Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers

    Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

  5. Ethiopia鈥檚 350m trees in a day

    Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?

  6. Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees

    Was your A-level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

  7. Mice and mind blowing maths

    Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.

  8. Immigrant crime rates in the US

    Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?

  9. The spread of fact-checking in Africa

    With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?

  10. Pregnancy prohibitions 鈥� the evidence

    Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid

  11. Missing women from drug trials

    How medical testing on just men causes problems.

  12. Zimbabwe鈥檚 economy: Are sanctions to blame?

    We look at politicians鈥� claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe鈥檚 difficulties.

  13. Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

    We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.

  14. Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

    We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

  15. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Questioning the claim that unmarried women without children are the happiest

  16. Dealing with the numbers of cancer

    How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer

  17. The things we fail to see

    The hidden influences that make a big difference to the way the world works

  18. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

  19. Volcanoes versus humans

    Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

  20. Hay Festival Special

    What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

  21. Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

    How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

  22. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

    The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

  23. Making music out of money

    A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

  24. Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

    Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

  25. Sex Recession

    US and British surveys show people are having less sex than in the past.

  26. Sex, coal, missing people and mice

    Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

  27. Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

    Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population

  28. Nurses, flatmates and cats

    We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

  29. Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

    Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?

  30. Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

    Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

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