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After beating a plagiarism claim in court, musician Ed Sheeran said that musical coincidences...
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Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
Do rail workers really earn £13,000 a year more than nurses? As rail strikes severely hit...
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Magazine articles and advice columns are commonly littered with spurious statistics about how...
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
The former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says that the cost of maternity litigation claims in...
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
British mathematics professor and broadcaster Hannah Fry has spent many years trying to explain...
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
The UK has a low unemployment rate, and a large number of people who are not working right now...
28:59
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
In the 1980s, Dr Marcia Herman-Giddens was one of the first people to notice that girls were...
09:01
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Is the government really spending a billion pounds on the Jubilee, as some have claimed? We...
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Nobel memorial prize winner Daniel Kahneman is one of the world’s most famous...
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Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Some recent, and surprising, estimates from the World Health Organisation suggested that the UK...
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
In the fight against global warming we’re constantly told to do our bit to reduce green...
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
The World Health Organisation recently released some new estimates of the global death toll of...
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Although the climate-changing effects of Carbon Dioxide emissions are well known, they are...
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
When much of Europe went into lockdown at the start of pandemic, Sweden’s lighter touch...
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Understanding India through Data
How do you go about understanding a country with a population as diverse as it is vast? Data...
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Have you ever looked at a numerical claim and thought ‘what on earth does that mean?’...
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Could an explosion in tea-drinking explain a decline in deaths in England during the industrial...
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
As the Russian Invasion of Ukraine continues, the effects ripple around the rest of the world....
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The War in Ukraine has reminded the world how easily conflict might escalate into a Nuclear War....
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
As the war in Ukraine continues, Reuters has reported that some 2.3 million people have been...
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