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The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
Plus, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads
How much is a human life worth?
The Price of Life author Jenny Kleeman on the cost of making and taking a life
The pioneers of proof
Professor Adam Kucharski on his new book, Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty
Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
Dispelling an incel myth that featured in the Netflix drama Adolescence
Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
Working out the reality behind President Trump’s claims on immigration, fentanyl and eggs
Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
The first episode of a new BBC series investigating the steep rise in autism diagnoses.
Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets
How retiring Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett made his money and made a point
How dead is the internet?
We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic
Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?
How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations’ population estimates
Factchecking the Trump istration’s Autism claims
Why has the rate of autism risen so dramatically in the last 30 years?
Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer’s and Robert Prevost on God and probability
Is the world’s population being miscounted?
Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought
How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers
Could you be hit by a falling satellite?
Investigating if 100,000 satellites could be orbiting earth in five years’ time
