To heroically understate the situation, I am not personally a fan of Christmas music. But…
Glenn McDonaldDecember 9, 2014
Statistics and journalism go hand-in-hand. Whether reporting on current trends, relaying political statements, or dissecting…
Richard KemenyNovember 27, 2014
Taken at face value, David Cameron’s warning this week about risks in the global economy…
Steve KeenNovember 20, 2014
The British public is obsessed with immigration. The notion of Johnny Foreigner coming over here,…
Oz FlanaganNovember 18, 2014
Tomorrow sees the release of The Imitation Game, a film chronicling the work of mathematician…
Brian TarranNovember 13, 2014
It has become something of a cliché to remark upon the ever earlier arrival of…
Nathan CunninghamNovember 11, 2014
This year’s Ebola epidemic is one of the largest the world has ever seen, affecting…
Salil MehtaNovember 10, 2014
The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa started over a year ago with a…
Francis Smart & Mario Cortina BorjaOctober 31, 2014
Do certain things happen because we expect them to happen? Jasper Fforde suggests so. The…
Brian TarranOctober 30, 2014
The EU has demanded rapid payment of £1.7 billion from the UK because our economy…
David SpiegelhalterOctober 27, 2014
Contrary to popular opinion, we have witnessed a fall in many types of crime over…
Rebecca ThompsonOctober 21, 2014
When I think ‘public health’ this week, two stories spring to mind - Ebola and…
Timandra HarknessOctober 15, 2014
Last month in Berlin, Kenyan athlete Dennis Kimetto broke the men’s Marathon world record running…
Mario Cortina BorjaOctober 13, 2014
New York City’s rat problem is infamous. The media describes a metropolis under never-ending siege…
Jonathan AuerbachOctober 10, 2014
Onchocerciasis, or river blindness as it’s more commonly known, is a major public health problem…
Peter DiggleOctober 7, 2014
Earlier this summer I went to a panel debate on the future of criticism in…
Oz FlanaganOctober 3, 2014
Welcome to the big data future. Correlation is in, causation is out. Old statistical sampling…
Brian TarranOctober 3, 2014
At Spotify, where I work, we have listeners in a large and growing numbers of…
Glenn McDonaldSeptember 29, 2014
