More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Inviting Covid for Dinner
Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 16 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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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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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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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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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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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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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: Ethiopia’s 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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Zimbabwe’s 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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Are married women flipping miserable?
Published: June 7, 2019, 4:59 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds
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WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Published: June 3, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds
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Hay Festival Special
Published: May 31, 2019, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds
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WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
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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Making music out of Money
Published: May 20, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds
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Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
Published: May 17, 2019, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds
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Sex Every Seven Seconds
Published: May 13, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 6 seconds
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Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Published: May 10, 2019, 5:14 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds
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Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Published: May 6, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
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Nurses, flatmates and cats
Published: May 3, 2019, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds
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Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Published: April 29, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds
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Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
Published: April 26, 2019, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds
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The economic impact of mega sporting events
Published: April 19, 2019, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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Where is Scotland’s highest village?
Published: April 15, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
Published: April 8, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Chess cheats and the GOAT
Published: April 2, 2019, 1:34 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds
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Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
Published: March 25, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Day light saving time and heart attacks
Published: March 18, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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The gender gap in tech
Published: March 9, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 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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WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
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.Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
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Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle
Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
Published: Jan. 12, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
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Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Published: Jan. 4, 2019, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
Published: Dec. 29, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
Published: Dec. 22, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
Published: Nov. 30, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
Published: Nov. 23, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
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WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds
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WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
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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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WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds
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Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds
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WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
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Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 42 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds
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Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 41 seconds
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WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
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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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 20 seconds
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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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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 34 seconds
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
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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Getting Creative with Statistics
Published: July 27, 2018, 4:17 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Published: July 23, 2018, 7 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
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How to Cycle Really Fast
Published: July 20, 2018, 3:17 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Published: July 6, 2018, 4:03 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Running at the World Cup
Published: June 29, 2018, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds
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How many words do you need to speak a language?
Published: June 22, 2018, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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FIFA World Cup Extravaganza
Published: June 15, 2018, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
Published: June 10, 2018, 11:01 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds
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Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate
Published: June 8, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 21 seconds
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Counting Rough Sleepers
Published: June 4, 2018, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 14 seconds
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The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
Published: June 1, 2018, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds
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WS More or Less: Australia Calling
Published: May 28, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
Published: May 25, 2018, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 48 seconds
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WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
Published: May 21, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
Published: May 18, 2018, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes
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WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
Published: May 14, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds
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Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
Published: May 11, 2018, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds
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WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world
Published: May 7, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
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Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
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.Duration: 10 minutes 38 seconds
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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.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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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 London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s
Published: April 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
Published: March 29, 2018, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?
Published: March 23, 2018, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Factchecking Trump on Trade
Published: March 16, 2018, 4:14 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister
Published: March 9, 2018, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
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WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
Published: March 5, 2018, 10:52 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
Published: Feb. 25, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 1 second
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WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard
Published: Feb. 18, 2018, noonDuration: 10 minutes 4 seconds
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UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy
Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds
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WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?
Published: Feb. 11, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds
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The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II
Published: Feb. 9, 2018, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?
Published: Feb. 5, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 2 seconds
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Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker
Published: Feb. 2, 2018, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds
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Is the US Census Under Threat?
Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers
Published: Jan. 26, 2018, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 46 seconds
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WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers
Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 11:57 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language
Published: Jan. 19, 2018, 7:22 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds
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WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century
Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 1:31 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds
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Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds
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WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
Published: Jan. 7, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
Published: Dec. 31, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds
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WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
Published: Dec. 24, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
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WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 11:03 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
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WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 10:51 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
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WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Published: Dec. 4, 2017, noonDuration: 10 minutes 4 seconds
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WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?
Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
Published: Nov. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
Published: Nov. 12, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds
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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.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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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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How Richard Thaler changed Economics
Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds
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WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 8:51 a.m.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.Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
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Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887
Published: Sept. 22, 2017, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds
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WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane
Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds
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WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds
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Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
Published: Sept. 8, 2017, 4:58 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 32 seconds
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One in 500 Year Storm
Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds
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Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 4:53 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds
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Fantasy Football - How to win
Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
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A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
Published: Aug. 25, 2017, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds
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Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?
Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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More boys than girls in Sweden?
Published: July 31, 2017, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths
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.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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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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How rare are deadly tower block fires?
Published: June 26, 2017, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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Post-Election Special
Published: June 19, 2017, 9:06 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds
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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.Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds
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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.Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds
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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.Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds
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Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
Published: May 26, 2017, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees
Published: May 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
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Tax, speed dating and sea ice
Published: May 19, 2017, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
Published: May 13, 2017, 12:35 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds
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WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
Published: May 12, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
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WS More or Less: An urban maze
Published: May 8, 2017, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
Published: May 1, 2017, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
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Fact-checking Boris Johnson
Published: April 28, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 1 second
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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.Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
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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.Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
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Living standards and Kate Bush maths
Published: April 21, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
Published: April 14, 2017, 10:15 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds
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Economics of Overbooking
Published: April 14, 2017, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Published: April 10, 2017, 9:20 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Published: March 31, 2017, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 1 second
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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?
Published: March 24, 2017, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China
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.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Published: March 3, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Published: Feb. 24, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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Hidden Figures: The Real Story
Published: Feb. 17, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
Published: Feb. 13, 2017, midnightDuration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
Published: Feb. 3, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
Published: Jan. 27, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
Published: Jan. 20, 2017, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
Published: Jan. 13, 2017, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
Published: Jan. 6, 2017, 9 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
Published: Jan. 3, 2017, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
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The Haber-Bosch Process
Published: Dec. 28, 2016, 9 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
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WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Published: Dec. 26, 2016, noonDuration: 9 minutes 9 seconds
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WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Published: Dec. 16, 2016, 9 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 1 second
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Have more famous people died this year?
Published: Dec. 16, 2016, 5:27 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds
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WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
Published: Dec. 12, 2016, 10:35 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
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How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
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Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds
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WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 11:22 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore
Published: Nov. 25, 2016, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds
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WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
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Is dementia the number one killer?
Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 5:47 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 20 seconds
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WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds
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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
Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 12:23 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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Trump tells the Truth
Published: Nov. 4, 2016, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
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WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
Published: Sept. 30, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
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WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
Published: Sept. 23, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
Published: Sept. 18, 2016, 3 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds
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WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 3 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
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WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds
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Death Penalty abolition
Published: Aug. 30, 2016, 8:34 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds
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WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
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Counting Terror Deaths
Published: Aug. 19, 2016, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 1 second
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WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
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WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds
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WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
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The Supermarket Effect
Published: July 29, 2016, 4 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 1 second
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WS More or Less: Ireland’s 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.Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
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WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Published: July 8, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
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Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
Published: July 1, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds
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WS More or Less: Brexit Economics
Published: June 24, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
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WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
Published: June 20, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
Published: June 17, 2016, 11:55 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
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The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
Published: June 16, 2016, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
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The Referendum by Numbers: Law
Published: June 15, 2016, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds
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The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
Published: June 14, 2016, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
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The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
Published: June 13, 2016, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds
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WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
Published: June 10, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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WS More or Less: HIV in Africa
Published: June 3, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
Published: May 27, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
Published: May 20, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds
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WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city
Published: May 13, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
Published: May 9, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
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The most profitable product in history
Published: May 6, 2016, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds
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WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
Published: May 2, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Published: April 25, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Published: April 18, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
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