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Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers
Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees
Was your A-level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

Are married women flipping miserable?
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

Hay Festival Special
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

Nurses, flatmates and cats
We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

Climate change, Victorian diseases, Alcohol
Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption.