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Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
We investigate the claim that fungal infections are a much bigger killer than malaria.
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
We ask what happened to the 3 tonnes of pure gold after the infamous robbery of 1983
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
We debunk a claim that the UK has by far the highest energy prices in Europe
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician’s groundbreaking diagrams
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.
Spreadsheet disasters
The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
How much should we trust the IMF’s forecasts for the UK?
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.
