If you live on more than $30 a day, you are part of the richest 15% of the world. 👇This chart shows the global income distribution. from my Our World in Data article on global inequality: ourworldindata.org/global-economi…

“I love the bike bus because I can chat with my friends and it's a fun way to get to school”... In this week's programme, @CBatesJourno and I look at the #BikeBus that's getting children to school safely: pod.link/1177590377 #PeopleFixingTheWorld Shawlands Bike Bus Gemma Simón i Mas

It's #TheHappyPod from the #GlobalNewsPod team. Sara Monetta on the safe evacuation of kids from #Khartoum; Jukka Ruusunen on clean, cheap(!) energy in #Finland, Mariko Oi 大井真理子 on why some Japanese people are taking smiling lessons.... bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f…

“I wanted people to know that he was this extraordinary human and he had incredible stories.” A start-up called MemoryWell now helps elderly patients share life stories with their carers 🎧 bbc.in/3r3HlcL

How mini-biographies are helping patients connect with their carers. More on #PeopleFixingTheWorld 🎧 bbc.in/43fvVA2

How pinning a biography to the wall can change how patients are cared for. Lovely vid: youtube.com/watch?v=qJJnOO…

Well this explains a lot "a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States" Rozado et al. 2022 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Here's something lovely: time-lapse composite photos of starling murmurations, by Kathryn Cooper.

Why replacing sand with coffee grounds could make your concrete, buildings and homes 30% stronger bbc.in/3qGwuWq

For once, an inspiring piece of good news! The app teaching Somalis to read and write Sahamiye Foundation UNICEF Somalia bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

The Trap: India's Deadliest Scam New documentary investigation from the #BBCEye team Brilliant journalism & filmmaking by our Indian colleagues Poonam Agarwal Ronny Sen Ankur Jain Nupur Sonar and many others #LoanApps #TheTrap

Will there really be one billion climate refugees? Tom Taylor Colls looks at the evidence on More or Less bbc.in/3TgyG2J

Science has still failed to definitively answer two major questions about mad cow disease - where did it come from and how did humans get it? Listen to The Cows are Mad on BBC Sounds bbc.in/46P6QOg

From the number of young people without jobs to how many people died from Covid... numbers have a strange way of going missing in China. Celia Hatton looks at why Beijing is increasingly making inconvenient statistics disappear bbc.in/3vadscM

Some personal news…

Breaking mews - the cat correspondent returns: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Arctic sea ice is much more complicated than I was expecting when I started making this ep of BBC More or Less Things like ice depth and weather add a lot of uncertainty. But the overall pattern is pretty easy to see.

Has Argentina's president Javier Milei fixed the country's inflation problem? Tom Taylor Colls speaks to economist @bollemdb bbc.in/4aJt9Yt

Grenfell: Building a Disaster is out now on BBC Sounds & will be on R4 @ 1.45 daily Each ep is 15 mins, so if you have a moment to hear about the missed opportunities & unheeded warnings which led to a fire which killed 72 people, please give it a listen bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

One of the best journalists I have worked with. The BBC need journalists of her calibre. Kate is also genuinely lovely. I will miss her and so will the BBC.