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Life Expectancy
How long might you live?
Counting Foreign Fighters
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
Wrestlers: Dying Too Young?
Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?
Worm Wars
Are mass deworming projects a good idea?
The Elliptical Pool Table
The geometric properties of an elliptical pool table.
China Stock Market Crash
The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really 鈥楤lack Monday鈥�?
Queuing Backwards
Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.
How Many is Too Many Bananas?
Should population density affect refugee movements? How many bananas are too many?
The Rise of the Giants?
Are rugby players getting bigger and bigger?
How Reliable is Psychology Science?
How reliable are psychological science studies? Tim Harford finds out.
Football鈥檚 Red Card Clich茅
Is it harder to play football against ten men? Tim Harford finds out
Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
Are tall people really more likely to get cancer? Ruth Alexander looks at a new study
Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
Nobel Prize winning economist professor Angus Deaton on a lifetime measuring inequality.
Oil
Are a million barrels of Nigeria鈥檚 oil stolen per day? Ruth Alexander finds out.
Processed Meat and Cancer
Are processed meats as cancer-causing as cigarettes? Ruth Alexander investigates.
China鈥檚 One Child Policy
As China ends its one child policy what has been its impact? Ruth Alexander investigates.
Creativity and Mental Illness
Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill, and has Cuba wiped out child hunger?
Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
Has so-called Islamic State been losing territory?
鈥楽ympathy鈥� for jihadis.
Are claims that one in five British Muslims 鈥榮ympathise with jihadis鈥� correct?
Climate Change
Did climate change contribute to the war in Syria?
100 Year Floods?
Do so-called 鈥�100 year floods鈥� only happen once a century?
How many Stormtroopers are there?
Are Star Wars鈥� Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth?
Numbers of the Year 2015 - Part One
A look back at some of the most interesting numbers that made the news during 2015
Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.
Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers making the news in 2015
Gravitational Waves
In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein鈥檚 theory.
Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Were Oxfam right to compare the wealth of the rich with that of the poor?
Swedish Refugees
Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden's teenage population?
Do e-Cigarettes Harm Your Chances of Quitting?
Should research described as 'misleading; and 'not scientific' have been published?
Fishy numbers?
Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?
When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan?
