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    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

  2. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

  3. Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

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

  4. The magic of trigonometry

    Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book ‘Love Triangle’

  5. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.

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

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

  7. Election claims and erection claims

    What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

  8. Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

    We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

  9. Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

    We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.

  10. Shakespeare’s maths

    Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing

  11. Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

    We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations.

  12. 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

  13. Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

    Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants.

  14. Data for India

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

  15. UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

    Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?

  16. Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

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

  17. MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

    Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?

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

    Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

  19. 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.

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

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

  21. Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

    What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures

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

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

  23. Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

  24. Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    The connection between being alone and an early death

  25. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

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

  26. What’s happening to Arctic ice?

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

  27. 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

  28. Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

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

  29. Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

    Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?

  30. School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

    Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?

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