Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - August 21, 2015 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Diabetes
We heard earlier this week that there had been a 60% rise in the number of cases of diabetes in the last ten years. But is there actually some good news in these figures?
Odd (attempted) burglaries
Police in Leicestershire have been only sending forensic teams to attempted burglaries at houses with even numbers. The papers reported it as a scandal driven by money saving. But is it a scandal or a sensible attempt to work out how to deploy the police's tight resources?
Men who pay for sex
Do one in 10 men regulalrly pay for sex as a Channel 4 Documentary claimed?
Loop
The ancient Greeks saw magic in the geometry of an ellipse and now mathematical writer Alex Bellos has but this to use in a specially designed game of pool.