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    Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

    How statistics were used to show how unlikely it is to win hundreds of times by chance.

  2. How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?

    What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today’s money

  3. How Expensive is Italy’s World Cup Failure?

    How much will Italy's surprise failure to make it to the world cup cost FIFA?

  4. Why Albums are Getting Longer

    More or less finds out the numbers that are changing modern music.

  5. Do Nigerian Lawmakers Make More than President Trump?

    Fact checking the claim that Nigerian politicians earn more than 1.7million dollars

  6. Novelists in Numbers

    Counting the favourite words of well-known authors

  7. Are US Millennials More Politically Engaged Online?

    Did the 2016 US election galvanise young people to become more engaged in politics?

  8. How Richard Thaler Changed Economics

    The behavioural economist who has inspired governments around the world

  9. Kilobyte to Brontobyte: Naming the Monster Numbers

    How the names of digital storage files evolved.

  10. Big Polluters: Ships v Cars

    Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?

  11. Uber, EU passports, Counting domestic violence

    Is Uber safe? The post Brexit dual nationality surge; measuring partner abuse.

  12. Sperm - Are we Going Extinct?

    How much of a problem is falling sperm count?

  13. Statistics abuse, Tuition fees, Beer in 1887

    Foreign secretary Boris Johnson is accused of misusing official statistics.

  14. How to Measure a Hurricane

    What’s the best way to measure a hurricane?

  15. Are natural disasters on the rise?

    Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?

  16. More Horses than Tanks?

    Is the UK the only country with more horses than tanks in its army?

  17. Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

    Will we need more power stations? Plus, are children in Manchester ready for school?

  18. London’s High-rise Death Toll

    Why it’s so hard to know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower fire.

  19. Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

    The difficulties of finding the true number of people who died in the fire.

  20. Fantasy Football - How to win

    Figuring out the best strategy as a wannabe team manager

  21. A-Levels, Drowning, Dress sizes

    Are boys getting more top A-Level grades than girls?

  22. Trump Bump?

    President Trump has taken credit for a booming economy. But is that fair?

  23. Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

    President Trump says transgender individuals cannot serve, but how many do already?

  24. Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?

    Why the cost of running the vote will be $25 a person.

  25. More boys than girls in Sweden?

    Exploring if an influx of teenage boys claiming asylum skewed the population’s sex ratio

  26. Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths

    Celebrating the only woman to win the biggest prize in mathematics.

  27. Calling the shots at Wimbledon

    Using statistics to prove or disprove the wisdom of tennis.

  28. Is Steph Curry Cheap and How Random is Random?

    Evaluating the biggest basketball contract in NBA history, plus Ryanair’s seat allocation

  29. Making Penalty Shoot-outs Fairer

    The maths behind plans to change penalty shoot-outs

  30. How Rare Are Deadly Tower Block Fires?

    How statistics can help us understand the tragic fire at London’s Grenfell Tower.

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