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Koalas
As bushfires rage in Australia, the plight of the koala made front-page news around the world. There were warnings that fires wiped out 80% of the marsupial's habitat and that koalas are facing exti…
Published on 6 years ago
Election Special (2/2)
Labour's spending plans, Conservatives claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record
Published on 6 years ago
Tree Planting Pledges
The UK General Election is fast approaching, top of the agenda are the political parties green ambitions and one particular initiative is garnering a lot of attention, tree planting. The Labour Party…
Published on 6 years ago
Election Special 1/2
50,000 nurses? 40 new hospitals? Big corporate tax rises? Childcare promises? Election pledges might sound good, but do they stand up to scrutiny? In the run up to the General Election on 12th Decemb…
Published on 6 years ago
Testing tomatoes
Have these saucy fruits become less healthy over time?
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
The world’s busiest shipping lanes
A listener wrote in asking which is the busiest shipping lane in the world. Ruth Alexander tries to find out with sea traffic analyst and former captain, Amrit Singh and Jean Tournadre, a researcher …
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s longest-serving leader and first indigenous president, stepped down last week amid weeks of protests sparked by a dispute over a recent presidential election in the country. Hi…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Reducing your risk of death
Two statistics about reducing your risk of an early death made headlines around the world recently. The first seems to be a great reason to add a four-legged friend to your life. It suggests that own…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
In the United States, some police jurisdictions didn’t send off DNA evidence from people who were raped for testing in a crime lab and for uploading into a national criminal database. Instead, the se…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Social worker and economist Edith Abbott and her contribution to crime statistics.
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago