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    How accurate is baby's due date?

    This week we investigate how a baby's due date is calculated

  2. How to better understand and explain numbers

    Professor Oliver Johnson discusses the use of statistics in the pandemic and in life.

  3. A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras鈥� Theorem?

    Two high school students say they鈥檝e discovered a new trigonometric proof for the theorem

  4. Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

    We debunk viral claims that incorrectly link covid-19 vaccines with a risk of miscarriage

  5. Silicon Valley Bank: A very modern bank run

    How do bank runs happen?

  6. Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

    We investigate the claim that fungal infections are a much bigger killer than malaria.

  7. 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

  8. UK v European energy prices, falling excess deaths, and is five grams of cocaine a lot?

    We debunk a claim that the UK has by far the highest energy prices in Europe.

  9. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee

  10. Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

    Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates.

  11. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams

  12. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.

  13. Spreadsheet disasters

    The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes

  14. The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British v English

    How much should we trust the IMF鈥檚 forecasts for the UK?

  15. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.

  16. Brexit and trade; pensioner millionaires; and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    We examine a claim that the UK鈥檚 trade with the EU has increased since Brexit.

  17. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    We examine a study that says humans and livestock dominate mammal life on Earth

  18. Coffee with the chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

    We fact check Jeremy Hunt鈥檚 pledge to halve inflation.

  19. Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

    We investigate the impact of our use of toilet paper on the world鈥檚 forests.

  20. Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

    How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance?

  21. How we shook the world of very large numbers

    How an edition of More or Less influenced the naming of enormous numbers

  22. A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

    How many people may be dying because of treatment delays in the NHS?

  23. Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted?

    Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

  24. Irish pubs - a global numbers game

    Are there more Irish pubs in Ireland than in all other countries combined?

  25. What are the numbers of 2022?

    Tim Harford and guests on the numbers that help tell the big stories of the year.

  26. Qatar World Cup: The pressure of penalties

    We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot

  27. Why is data so important in determining how we live?

    Tim Harford on how good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics

  28. World Cup in Qatar: How many migrant workers have died?

    Examining the wildly varying estimates of deaths in the run-up to the tournament in Qatar

  29. When do food shortages become a famine?

    With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine

  30. A $220 billion World Cup?

    Has hosting the Fifa football World Cup really cost Qatar $220bn?

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