Numbers of the year 2023

How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?

Deaths, taxes and missing cats

Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?

Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

A pocket-size history of the calculator

Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

The global gender split in young people’s politics

Debt, students, shark and chips

The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

What's happening to Arctic ice?

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

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

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

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

MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)