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Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?
A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws
Is immunity from vaccines waning?
How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.
The bill for Afghanistan
Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news.
Breaking climate records
The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures
The Rise of Delta
Where鈥檚 this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?
