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    Gender pay gaps and how to learn a language

    How much more are men paid than women? And how many words do you need to speak a language?

  2. How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

    A forgotten French mathematician鈥檚 unusual approach to the stock market.

  3. Missed appointments, Graduate pay, Cocaine on bank notes

    Do missed appointments cost the NHS 拢1 billion? And do you always earn more with a degree?

  4. Just How Rare is a Hole-in-One?

    Why it is not as simple to work out as you think

  5. Statistics of the Year 2017

    Phones, lawn mowers and how Kim Kardashian helped the public understanding of risk

  6. Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

    Measuring the energy used to keep the crypotcurrency secure

  7. Diet Coke Habit

    What effect could the US President鈥檚 Diet Coke habit have on his health?

  8. Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

    Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?

  9. Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

    How statistics were used to show how unlikely it is to win hundreds of times by chance.

  10. How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?

    What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today鈥檚 money

  11. How Expensive is Italy鈥檚 World Cup Failure?

    How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?

  12. Why Albums are Getting Longer

    More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.

  13. Do Nigerian Lawmakers Make More than President Trump?

    Fact checking the claim that Nigerian politicians earn more than 1.7million dollars

  14. Novelists in Numbers

    Counting the favourite words of well-known authors

  15. Are US Millennials More Politically Engaged Online?

    Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?

  16. How Richard Thaler Changed Economics

    The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world

  17. Kilobyte to Brontobyte: Naming the Monster Numbers

    How the names of digital storage files evolved.

  18. Big Polluters: Ships v Cars

    Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?

  19. Uber, EU passports, Counting domestic violence

    Is Uber safe? The post Brexit dual nationality surge; measuring partner abuse.

  20. Sperm - Are we Going Extinct?

    How much of a problem is falling sperm count?

  21. Statistics abuse, Tuition fees, Beer in 1887

    Foreign secretary Boris Johnson is accused of misusing official statistics.

  22. How to Measure a Hurricane

    What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?

  23. Are natural disasters on the rise?

    Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?

  24. More Horses than Tanks?

    Is the UK the only country with more horses than tanks in its army?

  25. Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

    Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?

  26. London鈥檚 High-rise Death Toll

    Why it鈥檚 so hard to know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower fire.

  27. Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

    The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.

  28. Fantasy Football - How to win

    Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager

  29. A-Levels, Drowning, Dress sizes

    Are boys getting more top A-Level grades than girls?

  30. Trump Bump?

    President Trump has taken credit for a booming economy. But is that fair?

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