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    Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

    Plus, the UK鈥檚 expensive electricity, church counts and babies in the City of London.

  2. The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

    Economist and author Duncan Weldon on his new book Blood and Treasure

  3. Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

    Plus: PIP claims, immigrant returns and spotting golf balls on the moon.

  4. Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

    Making sense of the numbers around the Russian dead and wounded.

  5. Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

    Plus, nuclear enrichment numbers, Curtice on Curtis and Viking economics.

  6. How to spot a suspicious statistic

    Professor Alex Edmans on his book, May Contain Lies

  7. Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

    Plus, asylum seeker hotel bill, Scottish water use and 1950s childcare claim.

  8. Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

    Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years鈥� time

  9. How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

    Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers.

  10. Is the world鈥檚 population being miscounted?

    Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought

  11. Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

    Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer鈥檚 and Robert Prevost on God and probability.

  12. Factchecking the Trump administration鈥檚 Autism claims

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

  13. Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

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

  14. How dead is the internet?

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

  15. Warren Buffett鈥檚 brilliant bets

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

  16. Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

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

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

    Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence

  18. The pioneers of proof

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

  19. How much is a human life worth?

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

  20. The mistake in Trump鈥檚 tariff formula

    Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads

  21. Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

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

  22. Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

    Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?

  23. 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?

  24. Could a 2% wealth tax raise 拢24bn?

    Plus, did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?

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

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

  26. Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

    Plus, UK v Russia on free speech and the collapse of the Labour Force Survey.

  27. How did lockdown impact children?

    Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.

  28. What is an IQ map and can we trust them?

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

  29. DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

    Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.

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

    Trump wants access to Ukraine鈥檚 Rare Earth deposits.

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