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    Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll

  2. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans

  3. Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

    Has Sweden’s pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster…or something in-between?

  4. Understanding India through data

    What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?

  5. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

    How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?

  6. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.

  7. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

  8. Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?

    What’s behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?

  9. Pizza and nuclear war

    How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.

  10. Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

    Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim

  11. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine

  12. Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

    How reliable are the figures coming out of the conflict in Ukraine?

  13. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

  14. Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

    Jabs for five- to 11-year-olds, lockdown effectiveness, and being green on two wheels.

  15. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    What does the data tell us?

  16. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

  17. Testosterone and sport

    Trans women’s participation in elite sport

  18. The prime minister in statistical bother

    Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.

  19. Placebo: Can you fool your brain?

    Looking at the power of expectations

  20. Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

    How fast is our economy growing? And what is happening with Omicron reinfections?

  21. Fertility rates: Baby boom or bust?

    Fertility rates around the world

  22. Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

    Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?

  23. Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

    Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?

  24. Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

    Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans.

  25. QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

    Fact checking a QAnon claim.

  26. Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

    An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.

  27. How much plastic is in the ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

    Can two social media stars remove $30million worth of plastic from the ocean?

  28. Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

    Will Nigeria’s population really reach 600million?

  29. Numbers of 2021

    The most significant numbers of the year

  30. The psychological economics of gift giving

    How to buy gifts people actually want.

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