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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

Fact checking the fascist regime.

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Numbers of the year 2024

We ask experts about their favourite stats from 2024.

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Numbers of the year: Part two

Our listeners' favourite numbers of 2024

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Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

We investigate a refugee claim that is often being taken out of context.

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Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

We investigate if people with red hair have a hidden pain-blocking superpower

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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

We investigate if the US president鈥檚 crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.

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Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

We investigate what a big claim about the speed of a quantum chip really means.

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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?

How baby mortality statistics gave a misleading impression about racism in healthcare

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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?

Are Hamas bombing Israel with condoms sent by the US?

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Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

Is this 鈥榯he biggest fraud in the whole of history'?

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Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?

Donald Trump says the US has given Ukraine more aid than Europe - what does the data say?

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Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?

Trump wants access to Ukraine鈥檚 Rare Earth deposits.

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What is an IQ map and can we trust them?

We investigate maps that suggest extremely low average IQs in developing countries

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What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?

Why the likelihood of planetary impact changed as asteroid 2024 YR4 approached.

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What鈥檚 Trump鈥檚 problem with Canada?

Does the US subsidise Canada $200 billion a year and why does Trump call them nasty?

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Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

Explaining the maths and economics of the US 鈥楲iberation Day鈥� tariffs

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How much is a human life worth?

The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life

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The pioneers of proof

Professor Adam Kucharski on his new book, Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty

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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?

Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence

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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

Working out the reality behind President Trump鈥檚 claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs

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Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets

How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point

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How dead is the internet?

We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic

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Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations鈥� population estimates

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Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims

Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?

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