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    Mice and mind blowing maths

    Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.

  2. Immigrant crime rates in the US

    Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?

  3. The spread of fact-checking in Africa

    With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?

  4. Pregnancy prohibitions 鈥� the evidence

    Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid

  5. Missing women from drug trials

    How medical testing on just men causes problems.

  6. Zimbabwe鈥檚 economy: Are sanctions to blame?

    We look at politicians鈥� claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe鈥檚 difficulties.

  7. Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

    We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.

  8. Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

    We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

  9. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Questioning the claim that unmarried women without children are the happiest

  10. Dealing with the numbers of cancer

    How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer

  11. The things we fail to see

    The hidden influences that make a big difference to the way the world works

  12. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

  13. Volcanoes versus humans

    Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

  14. Hay Festival Special

    What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

  15. Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

    How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

  16. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

    The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

  17. Making music out of money

    A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

  18. Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

    Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

  19. Sex Recession

    US and British surveys show people are having less sex than in the past.

  20. Sex, coal, missing people and mice

    Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

  21. Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

    Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population

  22. Nurses, flatmates and cats

    We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

  23. Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

    Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?

  24. Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

    Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

  25. The economic impact of mega sporting events

    Major sports events and the benefits to the local economy.

  26. Where is Scotland鈥檚 highest village?

    A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.

  27. Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

    We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate

  28. Chess cheats and the GOAT

    What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.

  29. Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

    Is the West African king, Mansa Musa, the richest person who ever lived?

  30. Daylight saving time and heart attacks

    Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?

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