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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

Noisy Decisions

The world鈥檚 most famous psychologist on how 'noise' impacts our decision making

• 8 mins

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

We debunk a claim the government is spending 拢38,000 per household on the Jubilee

• 28 mins

Are girls starting puberty earlier?

We look into a claim that the age of girls鈥� puberty is falling rapidly

• 8 mins

Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

The UK has a low unemployment rate but lots of people not working 鈥� how come?

• 28 mins

Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis

• 10 mins

Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

Are damages for maternity mistakes now more than wages for maternity nurses and doctors?

• 28 mins

How often do people have sex?

Looking at sex and statistics in Japan and America.

• 8 mins

Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

Do rail workers really earn 拢13,000 a year more than nurses?

• 28 mins

Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen鈥� but do the numbers agree?

• 11 mins

Covid climb, childcare costs and why can鈥檛 the French count properly?

How accurately are official figures picking up the new covid wave?

• 29 mins

How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

In the wake of the historic overturning of Roe vs Wade, we look at the statistics.

• 9 mins