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    The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

    Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

  2. Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

    Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?

  3. Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

    Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

  4. Who pays when trade wars heat up?

    We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

  5. Where have Cuba’s people gone?

    We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population.

  6. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

  7. Are companies making more money from their customers?

    We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

  8. Is planet Earth getting greener?

    Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?

  9. Does a language die every two weeks?

    Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens

  10. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

  11. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

  12. Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

    How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

  13. The magic of trigonometry

    Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book β€˜Love Triangle’

  14. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

  15. Do β€˜pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

    We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

  16. Shakespeare’s maths

    Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing

  17. Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

    Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses

  18. Data for India

    Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?

  19. Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

    Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death

  20. Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

    Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

  21. Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

    What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.

  22. Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

    How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines

  23. Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

    What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic β€œshock” measures

  24. Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

    Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence

  25. Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

  26. Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    The connection between being alone and an early death

  27. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90

  28. What’s happening to Arctic ice?

    Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?

  29. Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

    We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine

  30. Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

    Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.

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