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Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?
Why have malnutrition deaths shot up in the US since 2012?
Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?
Tim Harford investigates heat deaths, the carbon footprint of eggs, and ironing out Wales
Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?
The financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin on the numbers behind the 1929 crash
Education, Education, Education (and immigration)
Tim Harford investigates migrants and jobs, VAT and private schools, and a hard maths exam
Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France
Looking into the numbers behind claims of attacks on churches
Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama
The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The data race to find out how fast Ebola is spreading
Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Tim Harford explores healthy life expectancy, HS2 costs, VAT cuts and his marathon time
Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?
We investigate if loneliness is increasing at epidemic rates
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
Asylum seekers, nuclear power plants and fish, Sir David Attenborough and blue tit chicks