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Is every card shuffle unique?
Bonus podcast: Norman Numbers
Do Germans really take 19.5 days of sick leave per year?
How much of the world isn’t owned by anyone?
14 million deaths or zero deaths? The impact of the USAID cuts
How much of all the money in the world does Elon Musk have?
Would you take £50,000 or a 50/50 chance of £1m?
The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?
How much luck do you need to win the World Cup?
Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?
Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?
Does a full moon make crime rates go up?
Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’
Benefits vs minimum wage: Which pays more?
Benefits v minimum wage: Which pays more?
Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?
Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?
Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?
Education, Education, Education (and Immigration)
Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France
Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?
Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking
Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?
Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?
Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep
How likely is ‘likely’?
How much water does AI consume?
Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000
Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?
US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
Has a company really discovered a million new species?
Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
How close is Greenland to the United States?
No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer
Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?
Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?
Immigration, Benefits and Inequality
Older People, Education, Prisons and the Weather
Sex, Drugs and Empty Homes
Health
The Economy
Numbers of the year 2026
Numbers of the Year 2025
Numbers of the year 2025
Were there really Three Wise Men?
The shocking world of US health costs
Do we really have ‘superflu’?
RCP 8.5: Why did the climate change model get it wrong?
Is RFK right about US sperm counts?
Richard Thaler and The Winner’s Curse
Is there a stock market crash coming?
Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?
Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?
Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?
Is your housework split sexist?
Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?
Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?
Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?
Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?
Is the world getting less miserable?
Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?
The case of the missing US data
The Case of the Missing US Data
Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?
Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?
Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?
Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?
Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?
Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?
Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?
Do women feel the cold more than men?
How weird was the Med Sea heatwave?
How weird was the Mediterranean Sea heatwave?
Why it matters that Trump fired data chief
Are abortion numbers rising in the US?
Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?
Are abortion numbers rising in the US?
Are abortion numbers rising in the US?
The messy history behind the modern calendar
Are one in six children living through war?
Why Manchester United can afford to play badly
Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?
The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam
Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?
Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?
Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?
How to spot a suspicious statistic
Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?