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Is Steph Curry Cheap and How Random is Random?

Evaluating the biggest basketball contract in NBA history, plus Ryanair鈥檚 seat allocation

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Calling the shots at Wimbledon

Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.

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Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥� A Genius of Maths

Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.

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More boys than girls in Sweden?

Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population鈥檚 sex ratio

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Why is Kenya鈥檚 election so expensive?

Why the cost of running the vote will be $25 a person.

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Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?

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Trump Bump?

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

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Fantasy Football - How to win

Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager

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London鈥檚 High-rise Death Toll

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

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More Horses than Tanks?

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

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How to Measure a Hurricane

What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?

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Sperm - Are we Going Extinct?

How much of a problem is falling sperm count?

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Big Polluters: Ships v Cars

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

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Kilobyte to Brontobyte: Naming the Monster Numbers

How the names of digital storage files evolved.

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How Richard Thaler Changed Economics

The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world

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Are US Millennials More Politically Engaged Online?

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

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Novelists in Numbers

Counting the favourite words of well-known authors

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Do Nigerian Lawmakers Make More than President Trump?

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

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Why Albums are Getting Longer

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

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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?

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How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?

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

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Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

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

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Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

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

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Diet Coke Habit

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

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Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

Measuring the energy used to keep the crypotcurrency secure

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Statistics of the Year 2017

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

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Just How Rare is a Hole-in-One?

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

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How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

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

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Real Lives Behind the Numbers

How individuals manage their money - the personal stories behind economic data.

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Is the US Census Under Threat?

The survey question that could affect the accuracy of its results.

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