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Shakespeare’s maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book ‘Love Triangle’
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.
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
Does a language die every two weeks?
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens
Is planet Earth getting greener?
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
Are companies making more money from their customers?
We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever
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
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population.
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
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?
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
What can economics learn from sport?
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.
Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?