Series

Clips that make one argument

Topics group videos by subject. A series groups them by argument — a run of clips that say more together than they do apart.

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Sport by the numbers
Career records and medal tables, settled with the record books rather than the highlights.
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The planet in numbers
Air, forests, crops and connections, measured country by country.
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Money at the top
Fortunes, paycheques and market values at the very top, drawn to scale.
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India and China, side by side
The two most populous countries on Earth, compared figure by figure.
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Myths vs reality
Famous stories checked against the numbers that survive them.
Probability paradoxes
Results that stay counterintuitive after you have checked the arithmetic.
Where the money actually went
Headline totals broken into the parts nobody quotes.
Reading charts better
What the encoding does to the conclusion, using the same numbers throughout.
Subscriptions and churn
What streaming services count on, and what makes people finally cancel.
Home advantage
How much of a host nation's result is the hosting.

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