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Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Is opinion polling broken?
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
How our world measures up
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
How often do people have sex?
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Noisy Decisions
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Understanding India through Data
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
Pizza and Nuclear War
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Did lockdowns save any lives?
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Questioning claims about Covid and children
Testosterone and sport
The prime minister in statistical bother
Can you fool your brain?
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Numbers of 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
A TikTok tale
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
The art of counting
The numbers behind Squid Game
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Twenty years of More or Less
The Gender Pay Gap
Is it easy being green?
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
The Bill for Afghanistan
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Breaking Climate Records
The Rise of Delta
The Freedom Day Gamble
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Maths and the Mayflower
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
The origins of Covid
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
The doubling of life-expectancy
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim