More or Less: Behind the Stats

More or Less: Behind the Stats

371 episodes

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4


Podcasts

Do 85% of the worlds population practice a religion?

Published: Sept. 21, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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How do you count millionaires?

Published: Sept. 18, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds

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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Published: Sept. 14, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Published: Sept. 11, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Who pays when trade wars heat up?

Published: Sept. 7, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

Published: Sept. 4, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds

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Where have Cubas people gone?

Published: Aug. 31, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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

Published: Aug. 24, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Are companies making more money from their customers?

Published: Aug. 17, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Is planet Earth getting greener?

Published: Aug. 10, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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Does a language die every two weeks?

Published: Aug. 3, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

Published: July 27, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

Published: July 20, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Federers 54%: Tennis stats explained

Published: July 13, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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The magic of trigonometry

Published: July 6, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

Published: July 3, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds

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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

Published: June 29, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds

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Election claims and erection claims

Published: June 26, 2024, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds

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Do pig butchering cyber scams make as much as half Cambodias GDP?

Published: June 22, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

Published: June 19, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds

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Shakespeares maths

Published: June 15, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

Published: June 12, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

Published: June 8, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

Published: June 5, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Data for India

Published: June 1, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

Published: May 29, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 41 seconds

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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

Published: May 25, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

Published: May 22, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds

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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

Published: May 18, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

Published: May 11, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

Published: May 4, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds

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Has Milei fixed Argentinas inflation problem?

Published: April 26, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

Published: April 20, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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Tackling The Three-Body Problem

Published: April 13, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

Published: April 6, 2024, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Remembering Daniel Kahneman

Published: March 30, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

Published: March 28, 2024, 7:52 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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What's happening to Arctic ice?

Published: March 25, 2024, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

Published: March 16, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

Published: March 9, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

Published: March 2, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

Published: Feb. 24, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

Published: Feb. 21, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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The digital robots unlocking medical data

Published: Feb. 17, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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Debt, students, shark and chips

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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The global gender split in young peoples politics

Published: Feb. 10, 2024, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

Published: Feb. 7, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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A pocket-size history of the calculator

Published: Feb. 3, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

Published: Jan. 31, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Is Oxfam right about the worlds richest and poorest people?

Published: Jan. 27, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

Published: Jan. 24, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds

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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

Published: Jan. 17, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds

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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

Published: Jan. 13, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Deaths, taxes and missing cats

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds

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How much money do the Ndrangheta mafia make?

Published: Jan. 6, 2024, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Numbers of the year 2023

Published: Dec. 30, 2023, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds

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Can chocolate be better than salad?

Published: Dec. 23, 2023, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Chinas missing numbers

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does endurance sport harm your heart?

Published: Dec. 9, 2023, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Will there be a billion climate refugees?

Published: Dec. 2, 2023, 2:40 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds

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A boy meets girl meets stats story

Published: Nov. 25, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

Published: Nov. 18, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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Do Indian women own 11% of the worlds gold?

Published: Nov. 4, 2023, 5:50 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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The Overlooked Mathematicians of History

Published: Oct. 28, 2023, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds

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Are half the words in English from French?

Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds

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Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

Published: Sept. 30, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds

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Which city has the longest canals?

Published: Sept. 23, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 9:40 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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How to approach the world through numbers

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 8:29 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds

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Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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What percentage of our brain do we actually use?

Published: Sept. 2, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?

Published: Aug. 26, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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How many butterflies are there in the world?

Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?

Published: Aug. 12, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

Published: Aug. 5, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Data, extreme weather and climate change

Published: July 29, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

Published: July 22, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

Published: July 15, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

Published: July 5, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

Published: July 1, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

Published: June 28, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 22 seconds

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US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?

Published: June 24, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?

Published: June 21, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds

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Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

Published: June 17, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?

Published: June 14, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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Counting Hunger in India

Published: June 10, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

Published: June 7, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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A short history of data

Published: June 3, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

Published: May 31, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds

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Are young people more single than ever before?

Published: May 28, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce

Published: May 24, 2023, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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Detecting Bad Science with Data

Published: May 20, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

Published: May 13, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

Published: May 6, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds

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How much is the Coronation crown worth?

Published: April 29, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News

Published: April 22, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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How accurate is baby's due date?

Published: April 15, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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How to better understand and explain numbers

Published: April 8, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras Theorem?

Published: April 1, 2023, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

Published: March 25, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

Published: March 18, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

Published: March 11, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Does your jewellery contain stolen Brinks-Mat gold?

Published: March 4, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

Published: March 1, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

Published: Feb. 25, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds

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Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

Published: Feb. 18, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

Published: Feb. 15, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds

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Spreadsheet disasters

Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

Published: Feb. 4, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

Published: Jan. 28, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 18 seconds

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Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 5:50 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 16 seconds

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How we shook the world of very large numbers

Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 7 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 12:18 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

Published: Jan. 7, 2023, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Irish pubs - a global numbers game

Published: Dec. 31, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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Numbers of the Year 2022

Published: Dec. 24, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

Published: Dec. 17, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Why are data so important in determining how we live?

Published: Dec. 10, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

Published: Dec. 3, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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When do food shortages become a famine?

Published: Nov. 26, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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A $220 billion World Cup?

Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

Published: Nov. 14, 2022, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds

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Improving the numbers in the news

Published: Nov. 12, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Lulas zero deforestation plan for the Amazon

Published: Nov. 5, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Can Chinas GDP data be trusted?

Published: Oct. 29, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Catching Chess Cheats with Data

Published: Oct. 8, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 28 seconds

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NASAs asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Falling pound, the Queens funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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Ukraines progress in numbers

Published: Sept. 24, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds

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Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

Published: Sept. 22, 2022, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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How bad is fashion for the environment?

Published: Sept. 17, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds

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Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

Published: Sept. 10, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boriss broadband claim

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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Can we use maths to beat the robots?

Published: Sept. 3, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 57 seconds

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Kenyas Election Rounding Error

Published: Aug. 27, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The numbers behind natural birth control

Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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Is opinion polling broken?

Published: Aug. 13, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

Published: Aug. 6, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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How our world measures up

Published: July 30, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

Published: July 23, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

Published: July 16, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 1 second

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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

Published: July 9, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

Published: July 2, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Covid climb, childcare costs and why cant the French count properly?

Published: June 29, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 16 seconds

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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Published: June 25, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

Published: June 22, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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How often do people have sex?

Published: June 18, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

Published: June 15, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

Published: June 11, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

Published: June 8, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Are girls starting puberty earlier?

Published: June 4, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds

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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

Published: June 1, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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Noisy Decisions

Published: May 28, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Germanys excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

Published: May 25, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 14 seconds

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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

Published: May 21, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

Published: May 14, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

Published: May 7, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Swedens polarising pandemic response

Published: April 30, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Understanding India through Data

Published: April 23, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

Published: April 15, 2022, 4:50 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

Published: April 9, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

Published: April 2, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Pizza and Nuclear War

Published: March 20, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

Published: March 13, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

Published: March 6, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

Published: March 2, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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Did lockdowns save any lives?

Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 28 seconds

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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Questioning claims about Covid and children

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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Testosterone and sport

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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The prime minister in statistical bother

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds

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Can you fool your brain?

Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 48 seconds

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Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds

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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 9:25 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europes?

Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Numbers of 2021

Published: Dec. 26, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The psychological economics of gift giving

Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

Published: Dec. 5, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Simpsons Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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A TikTok tale

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The art of counting

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The numbers behind Squid Game

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 1:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 27 seconds

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Twenty years of More or Less

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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The Gender Pay Gap

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 1:55 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Is it easy being green?

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

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Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Death, Tax and Dishwashers

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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The Bill for Afghanistan

Published: Sept. 4, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

Published: Aug. 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

Published: Aug. 21, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

Published: Aug. 7, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Breaking Climate Records

Published: July 31, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The Rise of Delta

Published: July 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The Freedom Day Gamble

Published: July 19, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

Published: July 10, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Is Ivermectin a Covid wonder drug?

Published: July 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

Published: June 30, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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Maths and the Mayflower

Published: June 26, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim

Published: June 23, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 1 second

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The origins of Covid

Published: June 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes

Published: June 16, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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The doubling of life-expectancy

Published: June 12, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes

Published: June 9, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds

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Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer

Published: June 2, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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The Seaspiracy virtually empty ocean claim

Published: May 29, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents

Published: May 26, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

Published: May 22, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Explaining maths without Numbers

Published: May 15, 2021, 4:59 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Finding Mexico Citys real death toll

Published: May 8, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

Published: May 2, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

Published: April 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?

Published: April 17, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine

Published: April 10, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Too fast for Minecraft?

Published: April 4, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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In praise of Covid Data

Published: March 27, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

Published: March 20, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The truth about obesity and Covid 19

Published: March 13, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Sainthood and Cup draws

Published: March 6, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Why are US Covid cases falling?

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds

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How much Covid in the World?

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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Glasgow vs Rwanda

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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The Rapid Test Row

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 2:55 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 9:05 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Counting Covids impact on GDP

Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 2:50 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 10:51 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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Ants and Algorithms

Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Numbers of the year: Part two

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Numbers of the year: Part one

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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The economics of a Covid Christmas

Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Tracking Covid 19

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds

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Inviting Covid for Dinner

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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Vaccine numbers

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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How deadly is Covid 19?

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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US election: facts or fiction

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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A short history of probability

Published: Oct. 10, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Spreadsheet snafu, Long Covid quantified, and the birth of probability

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 25 seconds

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Record Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queens head

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds

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The magical maths of pool testing

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Covid cases rising, a guide to lifes risks, and racing jelly-fish

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Covid plasma therapy

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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A-level algorithms, poker and buses

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Belarus contested election

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Melting Antarctic ice

Published: Aug. 8, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid in Africa

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Data in the time of cholera

Published: July 25, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Covid misconceptions and US deaths

Published: July 18, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Swedens lockdown lite

Published: July 11, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds

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Why Trump is wrong about the USAs coronavirus case comeback

Published: July 4, 2020, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

Published: July 1, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

Published: June 27, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

Published: June 24, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Who Should be Quarantined?

Published: June 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

Published: June 17, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds

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Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

Published: June 10, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Keep your distance

Published: June 6, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

Published: June 3, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

Published: May 27, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

Published: May 23, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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School re-opening, Germanys Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots

Published: May 20, 2020, 8:31 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

Published: May 16, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

Published: May 13, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 38 seconds

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Covid-19 fatality rate

Published: May 9, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

Published: May 6, 2020, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Climate change and birdsong

Published: May 2, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

Published: April 29, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Comparing countries' coronavirus performance

Published: April 25, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

Published: April 23, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

Published: April 22, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Superforecasting the Coronavirus

Published: April 18, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Should you wear a face mask?

Published: April 11, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Coronavirus deaths, facemasks and a potential baby boom

Published: April 8, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

Published: April 8, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Are more men dying from coronavirus?

Published: April 4, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

Published: March 31, 2020, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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The Risk

Published: March 28, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Coronavirus Special

Published: March 25, 2020, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Mitigation or Suppression: Whats best to tackle Coronavirus?

Published: March 21, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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The mystery of Irans coronavirus numbers

Published: March 14, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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How much heat do you lose from your head?

Published: March 9, 2020, 1:07 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Netflix vs the environment

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds

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Artificial (not so) Intelligence

Published: Feb. 22, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

Published: Feb. 15, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 18 seconds

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WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

Published: Feb. 8, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Tracking terror suspects

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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WS More or Less: Coronavirus

Published: Feb. 1, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Coronavirus, emotions and guns.

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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WS More or Less: Dozy Science

Published: Jan. 25, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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Netflix and Chill

Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

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WS More or Less: Japans 99% Conviction Rate

Published: Jan. 18, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Weighing the Cost of Brexit

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 6:08 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

Published: Jan. 11, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 54 seconds

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C-sections and sharks

Published: Jan. 4, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Presidential candidates and dementia

Published: Dec. 28, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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The Simpsons and maths

Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Koalas

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Election Special (2/2)

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 10:16 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Tree Planting Pledges

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Election Special 1/2

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Testing tomatoes

Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The worlds busiest shipping lanes

Published: Nov. 23, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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Reducing your risk of death

Published: Nov. 9, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data

Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Edith Abbott and crime statistics

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Esther Duflo and women in economics

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds

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The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 1:20 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds

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WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 43 seconds

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WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

Published: Sept. 20, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds

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WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 8 seconds

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WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Climate deaths, austerity and pet food

Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 4:46 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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WS More or Less: Ethiopias 350m trees in a day

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 5:11 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 40 seconds

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Mice and mind blowing maths

Published: Aug. 16, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 18 seconds

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Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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The spread of fact-checking in Africa

Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Pregnancy prohibitions the evidence

Published: July 26, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Missing women from drug trials

Published: July 19, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Zimbabwes economy: Are sanctions to blame?

Published: July 19, 2019, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

Published: July 5, 2019, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

Published: June 28, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds

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Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

Published: June 21, 2019, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

Published: June 14, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

Published: June 10, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Published: June 7, 2019, 4:59 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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Published: June 3, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Hay Festival Special

Published: May 31, 2019, 4:21 p.m.
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Published: May 27, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

Published: May 24, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 1 second

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Published: May 20, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Published: May 17, 2019, 4:44 p.m.
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Sex Every Seven Seconds

Published: May 13, 2019, 8 a.m.
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Published: May 10, 2019, 5:14 p.m.
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Published: May 6, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Published: May 3, 2019, 4:19 p.m.
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Published: April 29, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Published: April 26, 2019, 5:28 p.m.
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Published: April 19, 2019, 11:05 p.m.
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Published: April 15, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Published: April 8, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Published: April 2, 2019, 1:34 p.m.
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Published: March 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: March 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: March 9, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds

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Insectageddon

Published: March 4, 2019, 10:55 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 20 seconds

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How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

Published: Feb. 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 4 seconds

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WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds

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Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 10:44 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds

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Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

Published: Feb. 1, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds

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WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

Published: Jan. 26, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

Published: Jan. 19, 2019, 10 a.m.
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Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds

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Published: Jan. 12, 2019, 6 a.m.
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Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

Published: Dec. 29, 2018, 2 p.m.
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Published: Dec. 22, 2018, 2 p.m.
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Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
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Published: Nov. 23, 2018, 8 p.m.
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Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 8 p.m.
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Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 8 p.m.
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Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds

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WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Whos the most generous?

Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 3:19 p.m.
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Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 7:05 p.m.
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Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds

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Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 9 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds

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Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 9 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds

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Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 5:10 p.m.
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Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 4:33 p.m.
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Published: Sept. 3, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity

Published: Aug. 31, 2018, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds

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Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
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WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

Published: Aug. 27, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 4:02 p.m.
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Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 4:05 p.m.
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds

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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Published: July 27, 2018, 4:17 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: July 23, 2018, 7 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Published: July 20, 2018, 3:17 p.m.
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Running at the World Cup

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Published: June 22, 2018, 3:03 p.m.
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FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

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Published: June 10, 2018, 11:01 p.m.
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Published: June 8, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 21 seconds

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Published: June 1, 2018, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds

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WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

Published: May 21, 2018, 9 a.m.
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Published: May 18, 2018, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes

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Published: May 11, 2018, 4:21 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

Published: May 7, 2018, 9 a.m.
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Published: May 4, 2018, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds

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WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics

Published: April 29, 2018, 9 a.m.
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Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

Published: April 27, 2018, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

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WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?

Published: April 20, 2018, 4:12 p.m.
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WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

Published: April 13, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

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WS More or Less: Why Londons Murder Rate is Being Compared to New Yorks

Published: April 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
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WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

Published: March 29, 2018, 2:10 p.m.
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Published: March 23, 2018, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Published: March 16, 2018, 4:14 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

Published: March 5, 2018, 10:52 a.m.
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WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

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Published: Feb. 18, 2018, noon
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Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 10:51 a.m.
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Published: Dec. 4, 2017, noon
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WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austens Mr Darcy?

Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 8 p.m.
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Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

Published: Nov. 5, 2017, 7:55 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

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WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 9:55 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

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Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

Published: Sept. 29, 2017, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 12 seconds

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WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
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Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

Published: Sept. 22, 2017, 5:10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?

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Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

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A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

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The Trump Bump

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Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
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Why is Kenyas election so expensive?

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
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Published: July 31, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
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Published: July 24, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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Calling the shots at Wimbledon

Published: July 17, 2017, 8:47 a.m.
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Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?

Published: July 10, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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In Search of Woodall Primes

Published: June 30, 2017, 10 p.m.
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How rare are deadly tower block fires?

Published: June 26, 2017, 12:59 p.m.
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Trumpton Extra

Published: June 21, 2017, 4:21 p.m.
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Post-Election Special

Published: June 19, 2017, 9:06 a.m.
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WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

Published: June 12, 2017, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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UK Election extra

Published: June 7, 2017, 4:54 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV

Published: June 5, 2017, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

Published: June 2, 2017, 6 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

Published: May 28, 2017, 10:36 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Ugandas refugees

Published: May 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
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Tax, speed dating and sea ice

Published: May 19, 2017, 9:02 p.m.
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Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

Published: May 13, 2017, 12:35 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

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WS More or Less: An urban maze

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WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

Published: May 1, 2017, 11 a.m.
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WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans Whats going on?

Published: April 21, 2017, 10:05 p.m.
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WS More or Less:The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?

Published: April 21, 2017, 10:05 p.m.
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Living standards and Kate Bush maths

Published: April 21, 2017, 9 p.m.
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WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

Published: April 14, 2017, 10:15 p.m.
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Economics of Overbooking

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WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?

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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes are they really saving infants lives?

Published: March 24, 2017, 8:10 p.m.
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Published: March 17, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

Published: March 10, 2017, 7:55 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?

Published: March 3, 2017, 8 p.m.
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Published: Feb. 24, 2017, 8 p.m.
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Published: Feb. 17, 2017, 9 p.m.
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Published: Feb. 13, 2017, midnight
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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

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Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 1 second

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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 7:25 p.m.
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore

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Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds

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WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

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Is dementia the number one killer?

Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 5:47 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Liberias Rape Statistic Debunked

Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 3:07 p.m.
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US election, stray cats and puzzles

Published: Nov. 11, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 8 seconds

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WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

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Trump tells the Truth

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WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Escobars Cocaine Deaths

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 3:41 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 10 p.m.
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Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?

Published: Sept. 30, 2016, 8 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Trumps crime claims

Published: Sept. 23, 2016, 10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

Published: Sept. 18, 2016, 3 a.m.
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WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

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WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

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Irish Passports

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Death Penalty abolition

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Gender Pay Gap

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WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

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Counting Terror Deaths

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Grammar Schools

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WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 11 a.m.
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Plastic Bags

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WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 11 a.m.
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The Supermarket Effect

Published: July 29, 2016, 4 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Irelands Shock GDP figures

Published: July 22, 2016, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US

Published: July 15, 2016, 10 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

Published: July 8, 2016, 10 p.m.
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Published: June 24, 2016, 8 p.m.
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WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

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The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

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The Referendum by Numbers: Law

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The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

Published: June 14, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
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The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

Published: June 13, 2016, 12:29 p.m.
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WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

Published: June 3, 2016, 8 p.m.
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

Published: May 27, 2016, 8 p.m.
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product

Published: May 20, 2016, 8 p.m.
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WS More or Less: The worlds most diverse city

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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

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The most profitable product in history

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WS More or Less: Simpsons Paradox

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EU Migration

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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

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Celebrity deaths

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WS More or Less: The story of average

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Fathers and babies

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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

Published: April 5, 2016, 12:05 p.m.
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth

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Published: March 24, 2016, 9 p.m.
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

Published: March 18, 2016, 9 p.m.
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Published: March 11, 2016, 9 p.m.
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

Published: March 4, 2016, 9 p.m.
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

Published: Feb. 26, 2016, 9 p.m.
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Published: Feb. 19, 2016, 9 p.m.
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

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Published: Feb. 8, 2016, noon
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

Published: Feb. 5, 2016, 5:33 p.m.
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Swedish refugees

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How harmful is alcohol?

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WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

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Billionaires versus the world

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Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

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Weekend Stroke Deaths

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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

Published: Jan. 11, 2016, noon
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Flood Defence Spending

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WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

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Numbers of the Year 2015

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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

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WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

Published: Dec. 18, 2015, 5 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

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WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

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WS MoreOrLess: 'Sympathy for jihadis

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WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

Published: Nov. 20, 2015, 9:50 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

Published: Nov. 13, 2015, 10 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

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WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

Published: Oct. 30, 2015, 9 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Oil

Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

Published: Oct. 16, 2015, 9 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

Published: Oct. 9, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Footballs Red Card Cliche

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WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

Published: Sept. 28, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

Published: Sept. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

Published: Sept. 21, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Striking Numbers

Published: Sept. 18, 2015, 4 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

Published: Sept. 14, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Is it worth targetting non-voters?

Published: Sept. 11, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Queuing Backwards

Published: Sept. 7, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Fit for work or at deaths door?

Published: Sept. 4, 2015, 4 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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China Stock Market Crash

Published: Aug. 28, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

Published: Aug. 24, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

Published: Aug. 21, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds

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WS More or Less: Worm wars

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Migrant Crisis

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WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?

Published: Aug. 7, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters

Published: July 31, 2015, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy

Published: July 24, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

Published: July 17, 2015, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Greece Special

Published: July 10, 2015, 4:14 p.m.
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Biggest Movies

Published: June 26, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

Published: June 19, 2015, 6 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

Published: June 13, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

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Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths

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Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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World Cup Migrant Deaths

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WS MoreOrLess: John Nash

Published: May 30, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Seven-day NHS

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WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

Published: May 23, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Female Drink Drivers

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WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers

Published: May 16, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

Published: May 15, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 43 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte

Published: May 11, 2015, 11 a.m.
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Election and Adultery Special

Published: May 8, 2015, 4 p.m.
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UK election podcast 4

Published: May 6, 2015, 5 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise

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Polls, nuns and life partners

Published: May 1, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa

Published: April 25, 2015, 5 a.m.
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UK Election Podcast 3

Published: April 24, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.

Published: April 18, 2015, 5 a.m.
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UK election podcast 2

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UK election podcast 1

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WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test

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WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess

Published: April 3, 2015, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?

Published: March 28, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

Published: March 21, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health

Published: March 14, 2015, 3 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food

Published: March 7, 2015, 3 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

Published: Feb. 28, 2015, 3 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

Published: Feb. 21, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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The mathematical secrets to relationships

Published: Feb. 14, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

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Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

Published: Feb. 6, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating

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Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Camerons 1000 jobs

Published: Jan. 30, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

Published: Jan. 26, 2015, noon
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Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?

Published: Jan. 23, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?

Published: Jan. 19, 2015, noon
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How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

Published: Jan. 16, 2015, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer

Published: Jan. 12, 2015, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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A&E waiting times

Published: Jan. 9, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.

Published: Jan. 4, 2015, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds

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Numbers of the Year 2014.

Published: Jan. 2, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.

Published: Dec. 27, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.

Published: Dec. 20, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths

Published: Dec. 13, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy

Published: Dec. 6, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Teenage Pregnancy

Published: Nov. 29, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

Published: Nov. 22, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide

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Tracking and Tackling Ebola

Published: Nov. 8, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation

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Screening for Ebola

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WS MoreOrLess: Big Data

Published: Oct. 18, 2014, 5 a.m.
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Species in Decline?

Published: Oct. 11, 2014, 5 a.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?

Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?

Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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The Barnett Formula

Published: Sept. 26, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi

Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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Shakespeare vs Rappers

Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Scottish referendum polls

Published: Sept. 12, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?

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To ice or not to ice?

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Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?

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Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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How Deadly Is Ebola?

Published: Aug. 29, 2014, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

Published: Aug. 25, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Troubled families?

Published: Aug. 22, 2014, 4:01 p.m.
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WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism

Published: Aug. 18, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Student Loans

Published: Aug. 15, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

Published: Aug. 10, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

Published: Aug. 2, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?

Published: July 26, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France

Published: July 19, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

Published: July 12, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Will we die before our parents?

Published: July 5, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?

Published: June 28, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?

Published: June 21, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

Published: June 16, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Faith and Charity?

Published: June 13, 2014, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'

Published: June 9, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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What's Scottish Independence Worth?

Published: June 6, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair

Published: June 2, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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The Piketty Affair

Published: May 30, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy

Published: May 26, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Romanian Crime

Published: May 23, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

Published: May 19, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats

Published: May 16, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Brazils Maths Superstar

Published: May 12, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Food Bank Britain

Published: May 9, 2014, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Sir Roger Bannister's impossible feat

Published: May 5, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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British Law - Made in Brussels?

Published: May 2, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Killed for being female?

Published: April 26, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Magic Numbers

Published: April 19, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Nigeria - rich or poor?

Published: April 12, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Freedom in Numbers

Published: April 5, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Is London Frances sixth largest city?

Published: March 29, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Missing planes

Published: March 22, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Mailbox edition

Published: March 15, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery

Published: March 8, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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The 10,000 hours rule

Published: March 1, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak

Published: Feb. 22, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Love by numbers

Published: Feb. 15, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Rising drug overdose deaths

Published: Feb. 10, 2014, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Immigration

Published: Feb. 3, 2014, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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The 50p tax rate

Published: Jan. 31, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk

Published: Jan. 27, 2014, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Immigration

Published: Jan. 24, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day

Published: Jan. 20, 2014, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Obesity crisis?

Published: Jan. 17, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq

Published: Jan. 13, 2014, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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The week that kills

Published: Jan. 10, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2

Published: Jan. 4, 2014, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Pension Charges

Published: Jan. 3, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1

Published: Dec. 28, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Numbers of the year

Published: Dec. 27, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?

Published: Dec. 21, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Britain's 80,000 homeless children

Published: Dec. 20, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?

Published: Dec. 14, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test

Published: Dec. 7, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

Published: Nov. 30, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?

Published: Nov. 23, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?

Published: Nov. 16, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?

Published: Nov. 9, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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100,000 Christian martyrs?

Published: Nov. 2, 2013, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?

Published: Oct. 26, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle

Published: Oct. 19, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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The Hawthorne Effect

Published: Oct. 12, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants

Published: Oct. 7, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Underage drinking

Published: Oct. 4, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?

Published: Sept. 30, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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NHS hospital deaths

Published: Sept. 27, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Formula 1 racing risk

Published: Sept. 23, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Do free school meals work?

Published: Sept. 20, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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Sexual violence statistics in Asia

Published: Sept. 16, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Fertility: when is too late?

Published: Sept. 13, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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The Death Toll in Syria

Published: Sept. 6, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Counting climate migrants

Published: Aug. 31, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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What price the life of a badger?

Published: Aug. 30, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Is coffee bad for you?

Published: Aug. 24, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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The magic of maths

Published: Aug. 17, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Where could we fit the entire worlds population?

Published: Aug. 10, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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What is the most visited country in the world?

Published: Aug. 3, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

Published: July 27, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Egypt: Biggest protest in history?

Published: July 13, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Sex and the world wide web

Published: July 6, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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How long will you live?

Published: June 29, 2013, 5 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?

Published: June 22, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?

Published: June 15, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Sex on the Brain?

Published: June 10, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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A&E, and the chances of having twins

Published: June 7, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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The maths of spies and terrorists

Published: May 31, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers

Published: May 27, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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The economics of Scottish independence

Published: May 24, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 13 seconds

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Angelina Jolies 87% cancer risk

Published: May 17, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 4 seconds

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How old is your dog?

Published: May 13, 2013, 11:01 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years

Published: May 10, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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The Maths of Mozart and Birds

Published: May 6, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

Published: May 3, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Are Man Utd a one-man team?

Published: April 27, 2013, 3 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Austerity: a spreadsheet error?

Published: April 22, 2013, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Thatcher in numbers

Published: April 15, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Communicating Risk

Published: April 8, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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That's not much gold

Published: March 30, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Can big data save lives?

Published: March 25, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

Published: March 18, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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HIV in numbers

Published: March 11, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Is the Kenyan election already decided?

Published: March 4, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Counting Catholics

Published: Feb. 25, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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How many people support Manchester United?

Published: Feb. 18, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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The end of the Penny

Published: Feb. 11, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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A case of statistical significance in Greece

Published: Feb. 4, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Fat or Fiction

Published: Jan. 28, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides

Published: Jan. 21, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Pop up economics

Published: Jan. 16, 2013, 9 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds

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Food waste and Scrabble

Published: Jan. 14, 2013, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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The Parable of the Ox

Published: Jan. 4, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Numbers of 2012

Published: Dec. 28, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 23 seconds

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Gun Statistics

Published: Dec. 24, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Fact-checking US gun crime statistics

Published: Dec. 21, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?

Published: Dec. 17, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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The Census and what does 'rare' mean?

Published: Dec. 14, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins

Published: Dec. 10, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement

Published: Dec. 7, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?

Published: Dec. 3, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego

Published: Nov. 30, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 4 seconds

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Fergie Time

Published: Nov. 26, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Ash Die Back and Fergie Time

Published: Nov. 23, 2012, 5 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Brain Food and Bacteria

Published: Nov. 19, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election

Published: Nov. 12, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Is Americas conviction rate really 99.5%?

Published: Nov. 5, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?

Published: Oct. 29, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Life-saving economics

Published: Oct. 22, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Predicting the global population

Published: Oct. 15, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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Predicting the Presidency

Published: Oct. 8, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Plenty more fish in the sea?

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Factchecking America

Published: Sept. 24, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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Investigating crime statistics

Published: Sept. 17, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Where are the Paralympics Medals?

Published: Sept. 10, 2012, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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How to explain infinity to a 4-year-old

Published: Sept. 3, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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Are African leaders more likely to die in office?

Published: Aug. 27, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds

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Levelling the statistical playing field

Published: Aug. 20, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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The great playing field sell off?

Published: Aug. 17, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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How to lose money - fast!

Published: Aug. 10, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS

Published: Aug. 4, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?

Published: Aug. 3, 2012, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Gun laws and gold medals (WS)

Published: July 28, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

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Gun laws and gold medals

Published: July 27, 2012, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds

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Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?

Published: July 20, 2012, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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Who are the Libor losers?

Published: July 14, 2012, 10:24 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)

Published: July 14, 2012, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds

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Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS)

Published: July 6, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 29 seconds

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Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)

Published: June 29, 2012, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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(WS) Weight of the world

Published: June 23, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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(WS) Chance encounters

Published: June 18, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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Interview with Daniel Kahneman

Published: June 11, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Counting images of The Queen. (WS)

Published: June 4, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds

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Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)

Published: May 28, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds

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The maths of infidelity (WS)

Published: May 25, 2012, 10:50 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)

Published: May 21, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4)

Published: May 17, 2012, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Trouble on the Greek railways (WS)

Published: May 14, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Are CEOs worth it? (R4)

Published: May 11, 2012, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds

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A grand economic experiment? (WS)

Published: May 4, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)

Published: May 4, 2012, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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The formula that changed the world

Published: April 27, 2012, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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20 Apr 12

Published: April 20, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds

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Eurostats - True or False?

Published: April 13, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Stamp prices and the first maths book

Published: April 6, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Do big football clubs win more penalties?

Published: March 30, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 52 seconds

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What is the world average salary?

Published: March 23, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Red meat death risk?

Published: March 16, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Is Apple worth more than Poland?

Published: March 9, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds

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Less than a dollar a day

Published: March 2, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Syria poll and Europes work hours

Published: Feb. 24, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds

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Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day

Published: Feb. 17, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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Measuring famine

Published: Feb. 10, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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More alive than dead?

Published: Feb. 3, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Sizing up cities

Published: Jan. 27, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations

Published: Jan. 20, 2012, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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Chavez's cancer claims

Published: Jan. 14, 2012, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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High speed rail

Published: Jan. 13, 2012, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds

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Using statistics in court

Published: Jan. 6, 2012, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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2011 in numbers

Published: Dec. 30, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

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Who are the 1% and the 99%?

Published: Dec. 23, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds

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Higgs boson statistics

Published: Dec. 16, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds

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Supermarket price wars

Published: Dec. 9, 2011, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds

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Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.

Published: Dec. 2, 2011, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 46 seconds

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Brain Culture Part 3

Published: Nov. 29, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds

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Brain Culture Part 2

Published: Nov. 22, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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Brain Culture Part 1

Published: Nov. 15, 2011, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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Government waste

Published: Sept. 9, 2011, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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A Euro Debt Odyssey

Published: Sept. 2, 2011, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Scottish Independence

Published: Aug. 26, 2011, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Is salt bad for you?

Published: Aug. 19, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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The maths of rioting

Published: Aug. 12, 2011, 12:33 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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US debt

Published: Aug. 5, 2011, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Public Sector Pay

Published: May 13, 2011, 12:33 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Climate Refugees

Published: May 7, 2011, 10:43 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Wedding Stats

Published: April 29, 2011, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds

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How useful is GDP?

Published: April 22, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Tuition fees

Published: April 15, 2011, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Youth Unemployment

Published: April 8, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Small spending cuts?

Published: April 1, 2011, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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The Story of Economics 'Monsters'

Published: March 30, 2011, 4 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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The Story of Economics 'Cogs'

Published: March 23, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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The Story of Economics 'Gods'

Published: March 16, 2011, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Health check

Published: Jan. 21, 2011, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Street grooming

Published: Jan. 14, 2011, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds

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Big numbers

Published: Jan. 7, 2011, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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2010 in numbers

Published: Dec. 31, 2010, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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What the Dickens?

Published: Dec. 24, 2010, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Council of despair

Published: Dec. 17, 2010, 2 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds

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Degrees of Debt

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 3:28 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds

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Gay Britain

Published: Oct. 1, 2010, 12:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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How welfare works

Published: Sept. 24, 2010, 12:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Who earns more?

Published: Sept. 17, 2010, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 33 seconds

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Back to school

Published: Sept. 10, 2010, 12:40 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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03 Sep 2010

Published: Sept. 3, 2010, 11:48 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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