Striking Numbers?
Are strikes on the rise, are rugby players getting bigger and is marine life declining? Tim Harford finds out.
Striking numbers?
Are the unions really on the rise again and holding the country to ransom?
The rise of the giants
Are rugby players really getting biger and bigger?
Living Blue Planet Index
Populations of marine mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have declined by 49% since 1970, a report says. But what does this actually mean?
Bean counter
The Office for National Statistics is much maligned whether it's its data revisions, the fact that some of it statistics have been deemed not fit for purpose or that we still haven't worked out why UK productivity is so low. So George Osborne has launched a review of the economic statistics spewed out by the ONS to see where improvements can be made. Tim talks to Professor Sir Charles Bean who is conducting the review.
Banana Equivalent dose
Following on from our revelation that bananas can't kill you even if you eat seven we look deeper into their radioactivity and the 'banana equivalent dose'.
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