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Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
How worrying is the UK’s jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.
Breast cancer screening
Could screening for breast cancer from the age of 40 save lives?
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.
Is Trump right about blood plasma therapy?
Is convalescent plasma therapy effective for treating Covid-19?
Covid plasma therapy
Claims about a Covid-19 treatment, breast cancer screening, and 18th century sex workers.
Obesity and poker
Tim Harford looks at Covid-19 and obesity. Plus, what poker teaches us about statistics.
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.
Belarus’ contested election
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result
Hawaiian Pizza, Obesity and a Second Wave?
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK, is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?
Melting Antarctic ice
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?