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    Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

    Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence

  2. Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

  3. Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    The connection between being alone and an early death

  4. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90

  5. What鈥檚 happening to Arctic ice?

    Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?

  6. Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

    We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine

  7. Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

    Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.

  8. Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

    Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?

  9. NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

    How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?

  10. The digital 鈥榬obots鈥� unlocking medical data

    Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data

  11. The global gender split in young people鈥檚 politics

    Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.

  12. A pocket-size history of the calculator

    Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers

  13. Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?

    We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality

  14. Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

    We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe

  15. Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

    We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day

  16. How much money do the 鈥楴drangheta mafia make?

    We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars

  17. Numbers of the year 2023

    Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world

  18. Can chocolate be better than salad?

    We investigate a nutritional conundrum 鈥� can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?

  19. China鈥檚 missing numbers

    How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear

  20. Does endurance sport harm your heart?

    We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia

  21. Will there be a billion climate refugees?

    We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration

  22. A boy meets girl meets stats story

    A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented

  23. Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

    Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea.

  24. Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

    We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space

  25. Do Indian women own 11% of the world鈥檚 gold?

    The cultural importance of gold is well known 鈥� but how much do Indians actually own?

  26. The overlooked mathematicians of history

    A global history of mathematics, from ancient China to the Middle East

  27. What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

    We ask whether the 鈥榳indscreen phenomenon鈥� suggests falling numbers of insects

  28. Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

    Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin

  29. Are half the words in English from French?

    We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.

  30. Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

    As the UK changes course in its path to net zero, how does it compare with other nations?

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