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Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

• 9 mins

Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

• 9 mins

How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

• 9 mins

The magic of trigonometry

Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�

• 9 mins

Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained

How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

• 9 mins

Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

• 9 mins

Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

• 9 mins

Does a language die every two weeks?

Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens

• 9 mins

Is planet Earth getting greener?

Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?

• 9 mins

Are companies making more money from their customers?

We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

• 9 mins

Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

• 9 mins

Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?

We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.

• 9 mins

Who pays when trade wars heat up?

We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

• 9 mins

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

• 9 mins

Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?

Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?

• 9 mins

The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong

Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

• 9 mins

Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

• 9 mins