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The Ignorance Test
How much do you know about the world?
The Death Rate of White Americans
Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?
The UK鈥檚 Foreign Secretary Gets a Factcheck
In an interview, Boris Johnson mentioned a few statistics that turned out to be untrue
An Urban Maze
Why some parts of town are hard to navigate.
Is My Baby a Giant?
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
Uganda's Refugees
Has Uganda accepted more refugees than some European countries manage in an entire year?
Have 65% of Future Jobs Not Yet Been Invented?
Education is failing our kids, claim experts. We go sleuthing around the world.
Samba, strings and the story of HIV
Can medical statistics be transformed into a jazzy night out?
Are African Football Players More Likely to Die on the Field?
After the death of Cheick Tiote, are African footballers more prone to heart attacks?
UK election: was it the youth vote?
What do the general election results mean? Did more young people vote than expected?
How Rare Are Deadly Tower Block Fires?
How statistics can help us understand the tragic fire at London鈥檚 Grenfell Tower.
Making Penalty Shoot-outs Fairer
The maths behind plans to change penalty shoot-outs
Is Steph Curry Cheap and How Random is Random?
Evaluating the biggest basketball contract in NBA history, plus Ryanair鈥檚 seat allocation
Calling the shots at Wimbledon
Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.
Maryam Mirzakhani 鈥 A Genius of Maths
Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.
More boys than girls in Sweden?
Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population鈥檚 sex ratio
Why is Kenya鈥檚 election so expensive?
Why the cost of running the vote will be $25 a person.
Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?
Trump Bump?
President Trump has taken credit for a booming economy. But is that fair?
Fantasy Football - How to win
Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager
London鈥檚 High-rise Death Toll
Why it鈥檚 so hard to know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower fire.
More Horses than Tanks?
Is the UK the only country with more horses than tanks in its army?
How to Measure a Hurricane
What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?
Sperm - Are we Going Extinct?
How much of a problem is falling sperm count?
Big Polluters: Ships v Cars
Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?
Kilobyte to Brontobyte: Naming the Monster Numbers
How the names of digital storage files evolved.
How Richard Thaler Changed Economics
The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world
Are US Millennials More Politically Engaged Online?
Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?
Novelists in Numbers
Counting the favourite words of well-known authors
Do Nigerian Lawmakers Make More than President Trump?
Fact checking the claim that Nigerian politicians earn more than 1.7million dollars
Why Albums are Getting Longer
More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.