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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen… but do the numbers agree?
How often do people have sex?
Looking at sex and statistics in Japan and America.
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
We look into a claim that the age of girls’ puberty is falling rapidly
Noisy decisions
Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on how 'noise' impacts decision making
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions?
Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress.
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
Understanding India through data
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
