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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

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Does a language die every two weeks?

Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens

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Is planet Earth getting greener?

Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?

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Are companies making more money from their customers?

We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

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Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?

We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.

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Who pays when trade wars heat up?

We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

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Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?

Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?

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The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong

Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty

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Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?

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What can economics learn from sport?

From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories

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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry

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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?

We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020

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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil

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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

We look at whether DOGE can successfully balance the US budget.

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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war

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How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

How many Americans live 鈥榩aycheck to paycheck鈥�?

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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

Fact checking the fascist regime.

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Numbers of the year 2024

We ask experts about their favourite stats from 2024.

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Numbers of the year: Part two

Our listeners' favourite numbers of 2024

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Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

We investigate a refugee claim that is often being taken out of context.

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Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

We investigate if people with red hair have a hidden pain-blocking superpower

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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

We investigate if the US president鈥檚 crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.

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Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

We investigate what a big claim about the speed of a quantum chip really means.

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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?

How baby mortality statistics gave a misleading impression about racism in healthcare

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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?

Are Hamas bombing Israel with condoms sent by the US?

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