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Analysing Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

What do the numbers tell us about Chris Froome's Tour de France performance?

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What is the Most Visited Country in the World?

Which countries top the most visited country list and how much do tourists spend there?

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Where could we fit the entire world鈥檚 population?

Where could we fit the entire world鈥檚 population and the effectiveness of soccer managers?

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The Magic of Maths

How a love of magic led to a love of maths for Stanford professor Persi Diaconis

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Is Coffee Bad for You?

How dangerous is your daily caffeine fix?

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Counting Climate Migrants

Is it true that environmental problems will create 200 million migrants?

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The Death Toll in Syria

How accurate are the reported death estimates in the Syrian conflict?

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Sexual Violence and Statistics in Asia

A report suggests almost a quarter of men in some Asian countries admit rape. Is it true?

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Rush: Formula 1 Risk

How dangerous was motor-racing in the 1970s? Plus: environmental facts about plastic bags

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Is the World's Population Growing Out of Control?

Is Sir David Attenborough right about global population projections?

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Have Mosquitoes Killed Half the World?

Have mosquitoes been responsible for the death of half the people who have ever lived?

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The Hawthorne Effect

The social study that showed that workers are more productive if they are given attention

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Nobel Prize puzzle

How the economist who called markets efficient is sharing top award with his big critic.

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How Long Can you Wait Until you Try to Have a Baby?

Why 300-year-old fertility statistics are still in use today

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Have 100,000 Christians died as martyrs?

How true are claims that there is an unreported global war on Christians?

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Does Politics Make us Get our Sums Wrong?

How researchers have measured the extent to which personal opinions cloud our judgement

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Sachin Tendulkar - the greatest, or just the 29th best test batsman of all time?

How do other measuring systems rate the Little Master?

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Could Statistics Cure Cancer?

Professor Terry Speed explains how statistics plays an important role in cancer research

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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

How has Switzerland attained a seed when the Netherlands, Italy and England have not?

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Testing the PISA test

Are the OECD PISA rankings really as definitive as people believe?

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Genocide in South Africa?

Do crime stats show white South Africans are the victims of widespread racist killings?

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Global Wine Shortage?

It is reported that global wine supplies are running low but do the figures add up?

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The Numbers of 2013 - Part One

The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year

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The Numbers of 2013 - Part Two

The most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year

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Counting the Dead in Iraq

How do you count those killed in war accurately?

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Could an Apple-a-day Reduce Illness?

A study has shown an apple-a-day will actually keep the doctors away but is it accurate?

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Alcohol and Cancer

Do two large glasses of wine triple the risk of mouth cancer?

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Immigration

Tim Harford explores the economic benefits of immigration, plus wedding guest strategies.

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Rising Drug Overdose Deaths

Deaths from drug overdoses in the United States are on the rise 鈥� but why?

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Love by Numbers

The maths behind modern matchmaking

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