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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe鈥檚?

Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?

• 8 mins

How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

Looking at Mark Rober and Mr Beast鈥檚 plastics pledge.

• 8 mins

Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.

• 27 mins

QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

Fact checking a QAnon claim

• 8 mins

Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans

• 28 mins

Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?

• 10 mins

Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?

• 28 mins

Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

Fertility rates around the world

• 8 mins

Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

How fast is our economy growing? And what is happening with Omicron reinfections?

• 28 mins

Can you fool your brain?

Looking at the power of expectations

• 8 mins

The prime minister in statistical bother

Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.

• 28 mins

Testosterone and sport

Trans women鈥檚 participation in elite sport

• 8 mins

Questioning claims about Covid and children

How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

• 29 mins

Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?

• 8 mins

Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

Jabs for five to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels

• 28 mins

Did lockdowns save any lives?

Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

• 8 mins

Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?

• 29 mins

Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine

• 8 mins

Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

Fact checking Boris Johnson鈥檚 claim.

• 11 mins

Pizza and Nuclear War

How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War

• 8 mins

Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

• 8 mins

Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.

• 8 mins

Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?

• 8 mins

Understanding India through Data

What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?

• 8 mins

Sweden鈥檚 polarising pandemic response

Has Sweden鈥檚 pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster鈥�or something in-between?

• 8 mins

Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans

• 8 mins

Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

We look at the World Health Organisation鈥檚 latest estimates of the pandemic鈥檚 death toll

• 8 mins

Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress

• 8 mins

Germany鈥檚 excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

Did Germany really fare worse than the UK in the pandemic?

• 29 mins

Are young people more single than ever before?

How to define and measure being single 鈥� and are dating apps to blame?

• 8 mins