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Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Is the world’s population being miscounted?
Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims
Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
How dead is the internet?
Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets
Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
The pioneers of proof
How much is a human life worth?
The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
Trump tariffs: All about the deficits
Is one in four people in the UK disabled?
What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?
Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?
What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?
Why are more people claiming disability benefits?
How did lockdown impact children?
What is an IQ map and can we trust them?
DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?
Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?
Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?
Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?
Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?
Are quantum computers already super-powerful?
Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?
Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?
Numbers of the year part 2
Numbers of the year 2024
Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?
Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
What can economics learn from sport?
Are older drivers more dangerous?
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Should the government target persnuffle?
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
How do you count millionaires?
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
Are companies making more money from their customers?
Is planet Earth getting greener?
Does a language die every two weeks?
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
The magic of trigonometry
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Election claims and erection claims
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Shakespeare’s maths
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Data for India
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
What's happening to Arctic ice?
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget