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    The Life Expectancy of a Pope

    Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age

  2. Celebrity Deaths

    Have more famous people died this year than usual?

  3. The story of average

    How astronomers introduced the world to the average.

  4. Fathers and Babies

    Have only 1 per cent of men taken the option of shared parental leave?

  5. The Great EU Cabbage Myth

    Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?

  6. The Great EU Cabbage Myth

    Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?

  7. Safe Drinking

    UK Alcohol guidelines recommend drinking less – but do the numbers support them?

  8. Mobiles or lightbulbs

    Are there more mobile phones than lightbulbs in Uganda? And thyroid cancer in Fukushima.

  9. Can We Trust Food Surveys?

    The pitfalls of nutrition science - how do really know what people are eating?

  10. Fact checking The Big Short

    Is it true that “every one percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die"?

  11. Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market

    The world needs new antibiotics so how do we entice big pharmaceuticals back in?

  12. When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive

    Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan?

  13. Fishy numbers?

    Will there be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050?

  14. Selfies, Sugar Daddies and Dodgy Surveys

    Women take selfies for five-and-a-half hours a day. Really? Tim Harford on junk surveys.

  15. Do e-Cigarettes Harm Your Chances of Quitting?

    Should research described as 'misleading; and 'not scientific' have been published?

  16. E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

    Tim Harford investigates whether e-cigarettes harm people's chances of quitting.

  17. Swedish Refugees

    Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden's teenage population?

  18. How Harmful Is Alcohol?

    Are there problems with the way we judge the harms from alcohol? Tim Harford finds out.

  19. Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

    Were Oxfam right to compare the wealth of the rich with that of the poor?

  20. Billionaires v the World

    Does it matter that 62 people now own as much wealth as half of the world's population?

  21. Gravitational Waves

    In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein’s theory.

  22. Weekend Stroke Deaths

    Jeremy Hunt says if you have a stroke at the weekend, you are 20% more likely to die.

  23. Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

    Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers making the news in 2015

  24. Flood Defence Spending

    Is there a north-south divide in the amount of money spent on flood defences in England?

  25. Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

    Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of 2015.

  26. Numbers of the Year 2015

    Tim Harford looks back at some of the most interesting numbers behind the news in 2015.

  27. Numbers of the Year 2015 - Part One

    A look back at some of the most interesting numbers that made the news during 2015

  28. How many Stormtroopers are there?

    Are Star Wars’ Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth?

  29. 100 Year Floods?

    Do so-called ‘100 year floods’ only happen once a century?

  30. Climate Change

    Did climate change contribute to the war in Syria?

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