Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

How our world measures up

Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

Is opinion polling broken?

The numbers behind “natural” birth control

Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

Can we use maths to beat the robots?

Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

How bad is fashion for the environment?

Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

Ukraine’s progress in numbers

Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

Catching Chess Cheats with Data

Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

Improving the numbers in the news

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

A $220 billion World Cup?

When do food shortages become a famine?