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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

The connection between being alone and an early death

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Tackling The Three-Body Problem

Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence

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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?

What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures

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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines

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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.

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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death

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Data for India

Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?

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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses

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Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

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The magic of trigonometry

Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�

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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained

How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

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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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