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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?
Understanding India through data
What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia
Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
What’s behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?
Pizza and nuclear war
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim
