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    Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

    Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?

    Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

    Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

    Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

    Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty

    Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

    The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

    Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

    Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

    Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?

    Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

    Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

    Who pays when trade wars heat up?

    We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

    Where have Cuba’s people gone?

    We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population.

    Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

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