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Are married women flipping miserable?
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
Volcanoes versus humans
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
Hay Festival Special
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?
Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.
Making music out of money
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.
Sex Recession
US and British surveys show people are having less sex than in the past.
Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)
Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world’s population