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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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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
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Nov 16, 2024 |
Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
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Nov 09, 2024 |
What can economics learn from sport?
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Nov 02, 2024 |
Are older drivers more dangerous?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
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Oct 26, 2024 |
Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
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Oct 19, 2024 |
When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
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Oct 12, 2024 |
Should the government target persnuffle?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Sep 28, 2024 |
Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
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Sep 21, 2024 |
How do you count millionaires?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
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Sep 14, 2024 |
How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
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Aug 31, 2024 |
Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
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Aug 24, 2024 |
Are companies making more money from their customers?
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Aug 17, 2024 |
Is planet Earth getting greener?
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Aug 10, 2024 |
Does a language die every two weeks?
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Aug 03, 2024 |
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
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Jul 27, 2024 |
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
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Jul 20, 2024 |
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
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Jul 13, 2024 |
The magic of trigonometry
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Jul 06, 2024 |
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
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Jul 03, 2024 |
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
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Jun 29, 2024 |
Election claims and erection claims
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
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Jun 22, 2024 |
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
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Jun 19, 2024 |
Shakespeare’s maths
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Jun 15, 2024 |
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
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Jun 12, 2024 |
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
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Jun 08, 2024 |
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
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Jun 05, 2024 |
Data for India
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Jun 01, 2024 |
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
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May 29, 2024 |
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
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May 25, 2024 |
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
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May 22, 2024 |
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
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May 18, 2024 |
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
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May 11, 2024 |
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
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May 04, 2024 |
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
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Apr 06, 2024 |
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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Mar 30, 2024 |
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Mar 28, 2024 |
What's happening to Arctic ice?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
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Mar 16, 2024 |
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
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Mar 02, 2024 |
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
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Feb 28, 2024 |
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
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Feb 24, 2024 |
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
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Feb 21, 2024 |
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Debt, students, shark and chips
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Feb 14, 2024 |
The global gender split in young people’s politics
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Feb 10, 2024 |
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
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Feb 07, 2024 |
A pocket-size history of the calculator
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Feb 03, 2024 |
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
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Jan 27, 2024 |
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
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Jan 20, 2024 |
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
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Jan 13, 2024 |
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
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Jan 10, 2024 |
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
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Jan 06, 2024 |
Numbers of the year 2023
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Dec 30, 2023 |
Can chocolate be better than salad?
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Dec 23, 2023 |
China’s missing numbers
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Dec 16, 2023 |
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
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Dec 09, 2023 |
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
A boy meets girl meets stats story
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
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Nov 18, 2023 |
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
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Nov 11, 2023 |
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
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Nov 04, 2023 |
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
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Oct 28, 2023 |
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
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Oct 21, 2023 |
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
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Oct 14, 2023 |
Are half the words in English from French?
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Oct 07, 2023 |
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
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Sep 30, 2023 |
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Which city has the longest canals?
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Sep 23, 2023 |
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
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Sep 20, 2023 |
How to approach the world through numbers
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Sep 16, 2023 |
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
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Sep 06, 2023 |
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
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Aug 30, 2023 |
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
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Aug 26, 2023 |
How many butterflies are there in the world?
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Aug 19, 2023 |
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
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Aug 12, 2023 |
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
Data, extreme weather and climate change
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Jul 29, 2023 |
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
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Jul 15, 2023 |
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 08, 2023 |
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
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Jul 05, 2023 |
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
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Jul 01, 2023 |
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
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Jun 17, 2023 |
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Counting Hunger in India
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Jun 10, 2023 |
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
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Jun 07, 2023 |
A short history of data
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Jun 03, 2023 |
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
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May 31, 2023 |
Are young people more single than ever before?
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May 28, 2023 |
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
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May 24, 2023 |
Detecting Bad Science with Data
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May 20, 2023 |
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
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May 13, 2023 |
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
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May 06, 2023 |
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
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Apr 22, 2023 |
How accurate is baby's due date?
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Apr 15, 2023 |
How to better understand and explain numbers
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Apr 08, 2023 |
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
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Mar 25, 2023 |
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
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Mar 18, 2023 |
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
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Mar 11, 2023 |
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
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Mar 04, 2023 |
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
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Feb 25, 2023 |
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
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Feb 22, 2023 |
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
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Feb 18, 2023 |
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
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Feb 15, 2023 |
Spreadsheet disasters
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Feb 11, 2023 |
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
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Feb 04, 2023 |
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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Jan 28, 2023 |
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
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Jan 18, 2023 |
How we shook the world of very large numbers
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Jan 14, 2023 |
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
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Dec 31, 2022 |
Numbers of the Year 2022
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Dec 24, 2022 |
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
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Dec 17, 2022 |
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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Dec 10, 2022 |
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
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Dec 03, 2022 |
When do food shortages become a famine?
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Nov 26, 2022 |
A $220 billion World Cup?
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Nov 19, 2022 |
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Improving the numbers in the news
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Nov 12, 2022 |
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
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Nov 05, 2022 |
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
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Oct 29, 2022 |
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
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Oct 22, 2022 |
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
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Oct 15, 2022 |
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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Oct 08, 2022 |
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
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Oct 07, 2022 |
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
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Oct 01, 2022 |
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
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Sep 24, 2022 |
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
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Sep 22, 2022 |
How bad is fashion for the environment?
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Sep 17, 2022 |
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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Sep 10, 2022 |
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
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Sep 07, 2022 |
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
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Sep 03, 2022 |
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
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Aug 27, 2022 |
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
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Aug 20, 2022 |
Is opinion polling broken?
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Aug 13, 2022 |
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
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Aug 06, 2022 |
How our world measures up
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Jul 30, 2022 |
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
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Jul 23, 2022 |
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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Jul 16, 2022 |
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 09, 2022 |
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
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Jul 02, 2022 |
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
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Jun 25, 2022 |
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
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Jun 22, 2022 |
How often do people have sex?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
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Jun 11, 2022 |
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
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Jun 04, 2022 |
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Noisy Decisions
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May 28, 2022 |
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
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May 25, 2022 |
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
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May 21, 2022 |
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
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May 14, 2022 |
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
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May 07, 2022 |
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
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Apr 30, 2022 |
Understanding India through Data
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Apr 23, 2022 |
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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Apr 09, 2022 |
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
Pizza and Nuclear War
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Mar 20, 2022 |
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Did lockdowns save any lives?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Questioning claims about Covid and children
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Feb 16, 2022 |
Testosterone and sport
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Feb 13, 2022 |
The prime minister in statistical bother
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Feb 09, 2022 |
Can you fool your brain?
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Feb 06, 2022 |
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
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Jan 12, 2022 |
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Numbers of 2021
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Dec 26, 2021 |
The psychological economics of gift giving
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Dec 19, 2021 |
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
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Nov 28, 2021 |
A TikTok tale
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Nov 21, 2021 |
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
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Nov 07, 2021 |
The art of counting
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Oct 31, 2021 |
The numbers behind Squid Game
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Oct 24, 2021 |
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Twenty years of More or Less
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Oct 06, 2021 |
The Gender Pay Gap
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Is it easy being green?
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
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Sep 22, 2021 |
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
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Sep 08, 2021 |
The Bill for Afghanistan
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Sep 04, 2021 |
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
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Sep 01, 2021 |
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
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Aug 28, 2021 |
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
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Aug 21, 2021 |
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
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Aug 07, 2021 |
Breaking Climate Records
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Jul 31, 2021 |
The Rise of Delta
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Jul 24, 2021 |
The Freedom Day Gamble
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
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Jul 10, 2021 |
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
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Jul 03, 2021 |
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Maths and the Mayflower
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
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Jun 23, 2021 |
The origins of Covid
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
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Jun 16, 2021 |
The doubling of life-expectancy
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Jun 12, 2021 |
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
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Jun 02, 2021 |
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
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May 29, 2021 |
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
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May 26, 2021 |
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
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May 22, 2021 |
Explaining maths without Numbers
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May 15, 2021 |
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
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May 08, 2021 |
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
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May 02, 2021 |
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
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Apr 24, 2021 |
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
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Apr 17, 2021 |
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
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Apr 10, 2021 |
Too fast for Minecraft?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
In praise of Covid Data
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Mar 27, 2021 |
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
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Mar 20, 2021 |
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
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Mar 13, 2021 |
Sainthood and Cup draws
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Mar 06, 2021 |
Why are US Covid cases falling?
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Feb 27, 2021 |
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
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Feb 20, 2021 |
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
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Feb 17, 2021 |
How much Covid in the World?
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Feb 13, 2021 |
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Glasgow vs Rwanda
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Feb 06, 2021 |
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
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Feb 03, 2021 |
The Rapid Test Row
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Jan 30, 2021 |
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
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Jan 23, 2021 |
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
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Jan 20, 2021 |
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
Ants and Algorithms
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Jan 09, 2021 |
Numbers of the year: Part two
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Jan 08, 2021 |
Numbers of the year: Part one
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Jan 08, 2021 |
The economics of a Covid Christmas
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Dec 19, 2020 |
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
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Dec 12, 2020 |
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
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Dec 05, 2020 |
Tracking Covid 19
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Nov 28, 2020 |
Inviting Covid for Dinner
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Nov 21, 2020 |
Vaccine numbers
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Nov 14, 2020 |
How deadly is Covid 19?
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Nov 07, 2020 |
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
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Oct 31, 2020 |
US election: facts or fiction
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Oct 24, 2020 |
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
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Oct 17, 2020 |
A short history of probability
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Oct 10, 2020 |
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
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Oct 07, 2020 |
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
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Sep 23, 2020 |
The magical maths of pool testing
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Sep 19, 2020 |
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
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Sep 16, 2020 |
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
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Sep 09, 2020 |
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
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Sep 02, 2020 |
Covid plasma therapy
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Aug 26, 2020 |
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
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Aug 19, 2020 |
Belarus’ contested election
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Aug 15, 2020 |
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
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Aug 12, 2020 |
Melting Antarctic ice
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Aug 08, 2020 |
Covid in Africa
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Aug 01, 2020 |
Data in the time of cholera
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Jul 25, 2020 |
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
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Jul 18, 2020 |
Sweden’s lockdown lite
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Jul 11, 2020 |
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
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Jul 04, 2020 |
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
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Jul 01, 2020 |
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
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Jun 27, 2020 |
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
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Jun 24, 2020 |
Who Should be Quarantined?
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Jun 20, 2020 |
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
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Jun 17, 2020 |
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
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Jun 10, 2020 |
Keep your distance
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Jun 06, 2020 |
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
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Jun 03, 2020 |
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
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May 27, 2020 |
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
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May 23, 2020 |
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
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May 20, 2020 |
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
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May 16, 2020 |
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
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May 13, 2020 |
Covid-19 fatality rate
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May 09, 2020 |
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
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May 06, 2020 |
Climate change and birdsong
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May 02, 2020 |
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
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Apr 29, 2020 |
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
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Apr 25, 2020 |
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
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Apr 22, 2020 |
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
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Apr 18, 2020 |
Should you wear a face mask?
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Apr 11, 2020 |
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
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Apr 08, 2020 |
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
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Apr 04, 2020 |
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
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Mar 31, 2020 |
The Risk
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Mar 28, 2020 |
Coronavirus Special
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Mar 25, 2020 |
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
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Mar 21, 2020 |
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
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Mar 14, 2020 |
How much heat do you lose from your head?
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Mar 09, 2020 |
Netflix vs the environment
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Feb 29, 2020 |
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
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Feb 22, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
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Feb 15, 2020 |
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
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Feb 14, 2020 |
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
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Feb 08, 2020 |
Tracking terror suspects
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Feb 07, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
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Feb 01, 2020 |
Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
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Jan 31, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Dozy Science
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Jan 25, 2020 |
Netflix and Chill
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Jan 24, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
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Jan 18, 2020 |
Weighing the Cost of Brexit
|
Jan 17, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
|
Jan 11, 2020 |
Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
|
Jan 10, 2020 |
C-sections and sharks
|
Jan 04, 2020 |
Presidential candidates and dementia
|
Dec 28, 2019 |
The Simpsons and maths
|
Dec 20, 2019 |
Koalas
|
Dec 13, 2019 |
Election Special (2/2)
|
Dec 10, 2019 |
Tree Planting Pledges
|
Dec 06, 2019 |
Election Special 1/2
|
Dec 03, 2019 |
Testing tomatoes
|
Nov 29, 2019 |
The world’s busiest shipping lanes
|
Nov 23, 2019 |
Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
|
Nov 15, 2019 |
Reducing your risk of death
|
Nov 09, 2019 |
Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
|
Nov 01, 2019 |
Edith Abbott and crime statistics
|
Oct 28, 2019 |
Esther Duflo and women in economics
|
Oct 18, 2019 |
The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
|
Oct 11, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
|
Oct 07, 2019 |
New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
|
Oct 04, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
|
Sep 30, 2019 |
Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
|
Sep 27, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
|
Sep 23, 2019 |
Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
|
Sep 20, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
|
Sep 16, 2019 |
Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
|
Sep 13, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
|
Sep 09, 2019 |
Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
|
Sep 06, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
|
Sep 02, 2019 |
Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
|
Aug 30, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
|
Aug 26, 2019 |
Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
|
Aug 23, 2019 |
Mice and mind blowing maths
|
Aug 16, 2019 |
Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
|
Aug 09, 2019 |
The spread of fact-checking in Africa
|
Aug 02, 2019 |
Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
|
Jul 26, 2019 |
Missing women from drug trials
|
Jul 19, 2019 |
Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
|
Jul 19, 2019 |
Two World Cups: Football and Cricket
|
Jul 05, 2019 |
Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
|
Jun 28, 2019 |
Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
|
Jun 21, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
|
Jun 14, 2019 |
WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
|
Jun 10, 2019 |
Are married women flipping miserable?
|
Jun 07, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
|
Jun 03, 2019 |
Hay Festival Special
|
May 31, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
|
May 27, 2019 |
Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
|
May 24, 2019 |
Making music out of Money
|
May 20, 2019 |
Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
|
May 17, 2019 |
Sex Every Seven Seconds
|
May 13, 2019 |
Sex, coal, missing people and mice
|
May 10, 2019 |
Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
|
May 06, 2019 |
Nurses, flatmates and cats
|
May 03, 2019 |
Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
|
Apr 29, 2019 |
Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
|
Apr 26, 2019 |
The economic impact of mega sporting events
|
Apr 19, 2019 |
Where is Scotland’s highest village?
|
Apr 15, 2019 |
Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
|
Apr 08, 2019 |
Chess cheats and the GOAT
|
Apr 02, 2019 |
Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
|
Mar 25, 2019 |
Day light saving time and heart attacks
|
Mar 18, 2019 |
The gender gap in tech
|
Mar 09, 2019 |
Insectageddon
|
Mar 04, 2019 |
How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable
|
Feb 22, 2019 |
WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter
|
Feb 18, 2019 |
Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol
|
Feb 15, 2019 |
WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings
|
Feb 12, 2019 |
Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution
|
Feb 08, 2019 |
WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
|
Feb 04, 2019 |
Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes
|
Feb 01, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?
|
Jan 26, 2019 |
Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall
|
Jan 25, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind
|
Jan 19, 2019 |
Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle
|
Jan 18, 2019 |
WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
|
Jan 12, 2019 |
Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
|
Jan 11, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
|
Jan 04, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
|
Dec 29, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
|
Dec 22, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
|
Dec 17, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
|
Nov 30, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
|
Nov 23, 2018 |
WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
|
Nov 16, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
|
Nov 09, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
|
Oct 28, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
|
Oct 19, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
|
Oct 12, 2018 |
Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce
|
Oct 09, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
|
Oct 07, 2018 |
Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.
|
Oct 05, 2018 |
WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
|
Oct 01, 2018 |
Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
|
Sep 28, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
|
Sep 24, 2018 |
How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
|
Sep 21, 2018 |
WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
|
Sep 17, 2018 |
Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
|
Sep 14, 2018 |
WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
|
Sep 10, 2018 |
Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
|
Sep 07, 2018 |
WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
|
Sep 03, 2018 |
African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
|
Aug 31, 2018 |
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
|
Aug 29, 2018 |
WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
|
Aug 27, 2018 |
A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
|
Aug 24, 2018 |
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
|
Aug 22, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
|
Aug 20, 2018 |
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
|
Aug 15, 2018 |
Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
|
Aug 10, 2018 |
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
|
Aug 08, 2018 |
Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
|
Aug 03, 2018 |
Getting Creative with Statistics
|
Jul 27, 2018 |
Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
|
Jul 23, 2018 |
How to Cycle Really Fast
|
Jul 20, 2018 |
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
|
Jul 06, 2018 |
Running at the World Cup
|
Jun 29, 2018 |
How many words do you need to speak a language?
|
Jun 22, 2018 |
FIFA World Cup Extravaganza
|
Jun 15, 2018 |
WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
|
Jun 10, 2018 |
Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate
|
Jun 08, 2018 |
Counting Rough Sleepers
|
Jun 04, 2018 |
The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
|
Jun 01, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Australia Calling
|
May 28, 2018 |
Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
|
May 25, 2018 |
WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
|
May 21, 2018 |
Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
|
May 18, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
|
May 14, 2018 |
Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
|
May 11, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world
|
May 07, 2018 |
Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
|
May 04, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics
|
Apr 29, 2018 |
Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day
|
Apr 27, 2018 |
WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?
|
Apr 20, 2018 |
WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?
|
Apr 13, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s
|
Apr 08, 2018 |
WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
|
Mar 29, 2018 |
Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?
|
Mar 23, 2018 |
Factchecking Trump on Trade
|
Mar 16, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister
|
Mar 09, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
|
Mar 05, 2018 |
WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
|
Feb 25, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard
|
Feb 18, 2018 |
UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy
|
Feb 16, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?
|
Feb 11, 2018 |
The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II
|
Feb 09, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?
|
Feb 05, 2018 |
Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker
|
Feb 02, 2018 |
Is the US Census Under Threat?
|
Jan 29, 2018 |
A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers
|
Jan 26, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers
|
Jan 22, 2018 |
Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language
|
Jan 19, 2018 |
WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century
|
Jan 15, 2018 |
Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
|
Jan 12, 2018 |
WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
|
Jan 07, 2018 |
More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
|
Dec 31, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
|
Dec 24, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
|
Dec 18, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
|
Dec 11, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
|
Dec 04, 2017 |
WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?
|
Nov 26, 2017 |
How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
|
Nov 17, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
|
Nov 12, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?
|
Nov 05, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
|
Oct 30, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?
|
Oct 20, 2017 |
How Richard Thaler changed Economics
|
Oct 13, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
|
Oct 10, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars
|
Oct 02, 2017 |
Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence
|
Sep 29, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?
|
Sep 25, 2017 |
Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887
|
Sep 22, 2017 |
WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane
|
Sep 15, 2017 |
Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
|
Sep 15, 2017 |
WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
|
Sep 11, 2017 |
Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
|
Sep 08, 2017 |
One in 500 Year Storm
|
Sep 04, 2017 |
Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
|
Sep 01, 2017 |
Fantasy Football - How to win
|
Aug 28, 2017 |
A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
|
Aug 25, 2017 |
The Trump Bump
|
Aug 20, 2017 |
Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
|
Aug 14, 2017 |
Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?
|
Aug 07, 2017 |
More boys than girls in Sweden?
|
Jul 31, 2017 |
Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths
|
Jul 24, 2017 |
Calling the shots at Wimbledon
|
Jul 17, 2017 |
Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?
|
Jul 10, 2017 |
In Search of Woodall Primes
|
Jun 30, 2017 |
How rare are deadly tower block fires?
|
Jun 26, 2017 |
Trumpton Extra
|
Jun 21, 2017 |
Post-Election Special
|
Jun 19, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?
|
Jun 12, 2017 |
UK Election extra
|
Jun 07, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV
|
Jun 05, 2017 |
Election Special: Tax, borders and climate
|
Jun 02, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?
|
May 28, 2017 |
Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
|
May 26, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees
|
May 22, 2017 |
Tax, speed dating and sea ice
|
May 19, 2017 |
Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
|
May 13, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
|
May 12, 2017 |
WS More or Less: An urban maze
|
May 08, 2017 |
Is Crime Rising?
|
May 05, 2017 |
WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
|
May 01, 2017 |
Fact-checking Boris Johnson
|
Apr 28, 2017 |
WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?
|
Apr 21, 2017 |
Living standards and Kate Bush maths
|
Apr 21, 2017 |
WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
|
Apr 14, 2017 |
Economics of Overbooking
|
Apr 14, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
|
Apr 10, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
|
Mar 31, 2017 |
WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?
|
Mar 24, 2017 |
More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China
|
Mar 17, 2017 |
WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
|
Mar 10, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
|
Mar 03, 2017 |
WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
|
Feb 24, 2017 |
Hidden Figures: The Real Story
|
Feb 17, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
|
Feb 13, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
|
Feb 03, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
|
Jan 27, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
|
Jan 20, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
|
Jan 13, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
|
Jan 06, 2017 |
WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
|
Jan 03, 2017 |
The Haber-Bosch Process
|
Dec 28, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Life, death and data
|
Dec 26, 2016 |
Christmas Quiz
|
Dec 23, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
|
Dec 16, 2016 |
Have more famous people died this year?
|
Dec 16, 2016 |
WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
|
Dec 12, 2016 |
How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
|
Dec 09, 2016 |
WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
|
Dec 02, 2016 |
Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
|
Dec 02, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
|
Nov 28, 2016 |
Pensioners aren't poor anymore
|
Nov 25, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
|
Nov 21, 2016 |
Is dementia the number one killer?
|
Nov 18, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
|
Nov 14, 2016 |
US election, stray cats and puzzles
|
Nov 11, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
|
Nov 07, 2016 |
Trump tells the Truth
|
Nov 04, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
|
Oct 28, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
|
Oct 24, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
|
Oct 14, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
|
Oct 07, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
|
Sep 30, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
|
Sep 23, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
|
Sep 18, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
|
Sep 12, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
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Sep 05, 2016 |
Irish Passports
|
Sep 02, 2016 |
Death Penalty abolition
|
Aug 30, 2016 |
Gender Pay Gap
|
Aug 26, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
|
Aug 22, 2016 |
Counting Terror Deaths
|
Aug 19, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
|
Aug 15, 2016 |
Grammar Schools
|
Aug 12, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
|
Aug 08, 2016 |
Plastic Bags
|
Aug 05, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
|
Aug 01, 2016 |
The Supermarket Effect
|
Jul 29, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures
|
Jul 22, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US
|
Jul 15, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
|
Jul 08, 2016 |
Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
|
Jul 01, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Brexit Economics
|
Jun 24, 2016 |
WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
|
Jun 20, 2016 |
The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
|
Jun 17, 2016 |
The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
|
Jun 16, 2016 |
The Referendum by Numbers: Law
|
Jun 15, 2016 |
The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
|
Jun 14, 2016 |
The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
|
Jun 13, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
|
Jun 10, 2016 |
WS More or Less: HIV in Africa
|
Jun 03, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
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May 27, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
|
May 20, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city
|
May 13, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
|
May 09, 2016 |
The most profitable product in history
|
May 06, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
|
May 02, 2016 |
EU Migration
|
Apr 29, 2016 |
WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
|
Apr 25, 2016 |
Brexit numbers
|
Apr 22, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
|
Apr 18, 2016 |
Celebrity deaths
|
Apr 15, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The story of average
|
Apr 11, 2016 |
Fathers and babies
|
Apr 08, 2016 |
WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
|
Apr 05, 2016 |
The Great EU Cabbage Myth
|
Apr 04, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
|
Mar 24, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
|
Mar 18, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
|
Mar 11, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
|
Mar 04, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
|
Feb 26, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive
|
Feb 19, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
|
Feb 15, 2016 |
Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
|
Feb 12, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
|
Feb 08, 2016 |
E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
|
Feb 05, 2016 |
Swedish refugees
|
Feb 01, 2016 |
How harmful is alcohol?
|
Jan 29, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
|
Jan 25, 2016 |
Billionaires versus the world
|
Jan 22, 2016 |
WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
|
Jan 18, 2016 |
Weekend Stroke Deaths
|
Jan 15, 2016 |
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
|
Jan 11, 2016 |
Flood Defence Spending
|
Jan 08, 2016 |
WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
|
Jan 04, 2016 |
Numbers of the Year 2015
|
Jan 01, 2016 |
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
|
Dec 25, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
|
Dec 18, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
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Dec 11, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change
|
Dec 08, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis
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Nov 27, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
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Nov 20, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
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Nov 13, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy
|
Nov 06, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer
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Oct 30, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Oil
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Oct 23, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
|
Oct 16, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
|
Oct 09, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché
|
Oct 02, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?
|
Sep 28, 2015 |
Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate
|
Sep 25, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
|
Sep 21, 2015 |
Striking Numbers
|
Sep 18, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
|
Sep 14, 2015 |
Is it worth targetting non-voters?
|
Sep 11, 2015 |
Queuing Backwards
|
Sep 07, 2015 |
Fit for work or at deaths door?
|
Sep 04, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
|
Aug 31, 2015 |
China Stock Market Crash
|
Aug 28, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
|
Aug 24, 2015 |
Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
|
Aug 21, 2015 |
WS More or Less: Worm wars
|
Aug 17, 2015 |
Migrant Crisis
|
Aug 14, 2015 |
WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
|
Aug 07, 2015 |
WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
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Jul 31, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy
|
Jul 24, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
|
Jul 17, 2015 |
Greece Special
|
Jul 10, 2015 |
Biggest Movies
|
Jun 26, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
|
Jun 19, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
|
Jun 13, 2015 |
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
|
Jun 12, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
|
Jun 06, 2015 |
World Cup Migrant Deaths
|
Jun 05, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: John Nash
|
May 30, 2015 |
Seven-day NHS
|
May 29, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
|
May 23, 2015 |
Female Drink Drivers
|
May 22, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
|
May 16, 2015 |
Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
|
May 15, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
|
May 11, 2015 |
Election and Adultery Special
|
May 08, 2015 |
UK election podcast 4
|
May 06, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
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May 02, 2015 |
Polls, nuns and life partners
|
May 01, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
|
Apr 25, 2015 |
UK Election Podcast 3
|
Apr 24, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
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Apr 18, 2015 |
UK election podcast 2
|
Apr 17, 2015 |
UK election podcast 1
|
Apr 13, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
|
Apr 11, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
|
Apr 03, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
|
Mar 28, 2015 |
Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
|
Mar 21, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
|
Mar 14, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
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Mar 07, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
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Feb 28, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
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Feb 21, 2015 |
The mathematical secrets to relationships
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Feb 14, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
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Feb 09, 2015 |
Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
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Feb 06, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
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Feb 02, 2015 |
Cameron’s 1000 jobs
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Jan 30, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
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Jan 26, 2015 |
Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
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Jan 23, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
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Jan 19, 2015 |
How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
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Jan 16, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
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Jan 12, 2015 |
A&E waiting times
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Jan 09, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
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Jan 04, 2015 |
Numbers of the Year 2014.
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Jan 02, 2015 |
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
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Dec 27, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
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Dec 20, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
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Dec 13, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
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Dec 06, 2014 |
Teenage Pregnancy
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Nov 29, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
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Nov 22, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide
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Nov 15, 2014 |
Tracking and Tackling Ebola
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Nov 08, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation
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Nov 01, 2014 |
Screening for Ebola
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Oct 25, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Big Data
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Oct 18, 2014 |
Species in Decline?
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Oct 11, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
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Oct 06, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
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Sep 29, 2014 |
The Barnett Formula
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Sep 26, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
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Sep 22, 2014 |
Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match
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Sep 19, 2014 |
Shakespeare vs Rappers
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Sep 15, 2014 |
Scottish referendum polls
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Sep 12, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
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Sep 08, 2014 |
To ice or not to ice?
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Sep 05, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?
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Sep 01, 2014 |
How Deadly Is Ebola?
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Aug 29, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza
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Aug 25, 2014 |
Troubled families?
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Aug 22, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism
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Aug 18, 2014 |
Student Loans
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Aug 15, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Ebola
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Aug 10, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
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Aug 02, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
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Jul 26, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
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Jul 19, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket
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Jul 12, 2014 |
Will we die before our parents?
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Jul 05, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?
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Jun 28, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
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Jun 21, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?
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Jun 16, 2014 |
Faith and Charity?
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Jun 13, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'
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Jun 09, 2014 |
What's Scottish Independence Worth?
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Jun 06, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
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Jun 02, 2014 |
The Piketty Affair
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May 30, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy
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May 26, 2014 |
Romanian Crime
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May 23, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?
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May 19, 2014 |
Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats
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May 16, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar
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May 12, 2014 |
Food Bank Britain
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May 09, 2014 |
Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat
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May 05, 2014 |
British Law - Made in Brussels?
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May 02, 2014 |
Killed for being female?
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Apr 26, 2014 |
Magic Numbers
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Apr 19, 2014 |
Nigeria - rich or poor?
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Apr 12, 2014 |
Freedom in Numbers
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Apr 05, 2014 |
Is London France’s sixth largest city?
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Mar 29, 2014 |
Missing planes
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Mar 22, 2014 |
Mailbox edition
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Mar 15, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
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Mar 08, 2014 |
The 10,000 hours rule
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Mar 01, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
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Feb 22, 2014 |
Love by numbers
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Feb 15, 2014 |
Rising drug overdose deaths
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Feb 10, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
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Feb 03, 2014 |
The 50p tax rate
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Jan 31, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
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Jan 27, 2014 |
Immigration
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Jan 24, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
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Jan 20, 2014 |
Obesity crisis?
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Jan 17, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
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Jan 13, 2014 |
The week that kills
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Jan 10, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
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Jan 04, 2014 |
Pension Charges
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Jan 03, 2014 |
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
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Dec 28, 2013 |
Numbers of the year
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Dec 27, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
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Dec 21, 2013 |
Britain's 80,000 homeless children
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Dec 20, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
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Dec 14, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
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Dec 07, 2013 |
Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
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Nov 30, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
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Nov 23, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
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Nov 16, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
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Nov 09, 2013 |
100,000 Christian martyrs?
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Nov 02, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
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Oct 26, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
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Oct 19, 2013 |
The Hawthorne Effect
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Oct 12, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
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Oct 07, 2013 |
Underage drinking
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Oct 04, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
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Sep 30, 2013 |
NHS hospital deaths
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Sep 27, 2013 |
Formula 1 racing risk
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Sep 23, 2013 |
Do free school meals work?
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Sep 20, 2013 |
Sexual violence statistics in Asia
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Sep 16, 2013 |
Fertility: when is too late?
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Sep 13, 2013 |
The death toll in Syria
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Sep 09, 2013 |
The Death Toll in Syria
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Sep 06, 2013 |
Counting climate migrants
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Aug 31, 2013 |
What price the life of a badger?
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Aug 30, 2013 |
Is coffee bad for you?
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Aug 24, 2013 |
The magic of maths
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Aug 17, 2013 |
Where could we fit the entire world’s population?
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Aug 10, 2013 |
What is the most visited country in the world?
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Aug 03, 2013 |
Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
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Jul 27, 2013 |
Egypt: Biggest protest in history?
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Jul 13, 2013 |
Sex and the world wide web
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Jul 06, 2013 |
How long will you live?
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Jun 29, 2013 |
Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?
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Jun 22, 2013 |
Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?
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Jun 15, 2013 |
Sex on the Brain?
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Jun 10, 2013 |
A&E, and the chances of having twins
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Jun 07, 2013 |
The maths of spies and terrorists
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Jun 03, 2013 |
The maths of spies and terrorists
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May 31, 2013 |
Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers
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May 27, 2013 |
The economics of Scottish independence
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May 24, 2013 |
Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
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May 20, 2013 |
Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
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May 17, 2013 |
How old is your dog?
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May 13, 2013 |
How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years
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May 10, 2013 |
The Maths of Mozart and Birds
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May 06, 2013 |
Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
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May 03, 2013 |
Are Man Utd a one-man team?
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Apr 27, 2013 |
Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
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Apr 22, 2013 |
Thatcher in numbers
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Apr 15, 2013 |
Communicating Risk
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Apr 08, 2013 |
That's not much gold
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Mar 30, 2013 |
Can big data save lives?
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Mar 25, 2013 |
Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
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Mar 18, 2013 |
HIV in numbers
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Mar 11, 2013 |
Is the Kenyan election already decided?
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Mar 04, 2013 |
Counting Catholics
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Feb 25, 2013 |
How many people support Manchester United?
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Feb 18, 2013 |
The end of the Penny
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Feb 11, 2013 |
A case of statistical significance in Greece
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Feb 04, 2013 |
Fat or Fiction
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Jan 28, 2013 |
WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
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Jan 21, 2013 |
Pop up economics
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Jan 16, 2013 |
Food waste and Scrabble
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Jan 14, 2013 |
The Parable of the Ox
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Jan 07, 2013 |
The Parable of the Ox
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Jan 04, 2013 |
Numbers of 2012
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Dec 31, 2012 |
Numbers of 2012
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Dec 28, 2012 |
Gun Statistics
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Dec 24, 2012 |
Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
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Dec 21, 2012 |
WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
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Dec 17, 2012 |
The Census and what does 'rare' mean?
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Dec 14, 2012 |
World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins
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Dec 10, 2012 |
Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement
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Dec 07, 2012 |
More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
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Dec 03, 2012 |
More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego
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Nov 30, 2012 |
Fergie Time
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Nov 26, 2012 |
Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
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Nov 23, 2012 |
Brain Food and Bacteria
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Nov 19, 2012 |
Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election
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Nov 12, 2012 |
Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?
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Nov 05, 2012 |
Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?
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Oct 29, 2012 |
Life-saving economics
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Oct 22, 2012 |
Predicting the global population
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Oct 15, 2012 |
Predicting the Presidency
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Oct 08, 2012 |
Plenty more fish in the sea?
|
Oct 01, 2012 |
Factchecking America
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Sep 24, 2012 |
Investigating crime statistics
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Sep 17, 2012 |
Where are the Paralympics Medals?
|
Sep 10, 2012 |
How to explain infinity to a 4-year-old
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Sep 03, 2012 |
Are African leaders more likely to die in office?
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Aug 27, 2012 |
Levelling the statistical playing field
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Aug 20, 2012 |
The great playing field sell off?
|
Aug 17, 2012 |
How to lose money - fast!
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Aug 13, 2012 |
How to lose money - fast!
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Aug 10, 2012 |
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS
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Aug 04, 2012 |
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
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Aug 03, 2012 |
Gun laws and gold medals (WS)
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Jul 28, 2012 |
Gun laws and gold medals
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Jul 27, 2012 |
Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS)
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Jul 21, 2012 |
Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?
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Jul 20, 2012 |
Who are the Libor losers?
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Jul 14, 2012 |
More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)
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Jul 14, 2012 |
Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS)
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Jul 06, 2012 |
Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)
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Jun 29, 2012 |
(WS) Weight of the world
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Jun 23, 2012 |
(WS) Chance encounters
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Jun 18, 2012 |
Interview with Daniel Kahneman
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Jun 11, 2012 |
Counting images of The Queen. (WS)
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Jun 04, 2012 |
Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)
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May 28, 2012 |
The maths of infidelity (WS)
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May 25, 2012 |
Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)
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May 21, 2012 |
Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4)
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May 17, 2012 |
Trouble on the Greek railways (WS)
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May 14, 2012 |
Are CEOs worth it? (R4)
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May 11, 2012 |
A grand economic experiment? (WS)
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May 04, 2012 |
Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)
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May 04, 2012 |
The formula that changed the world
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Apr 27, 2012 |
The formula that changed the world
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Apr 27, 2012 |
20 Apr 12
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Apr 20, 2012 |
20 Apr 12
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Apr 20, 2012 |
Eurostats - True or False?
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Apr 13, 2012 |
Stamp prices and the first maths book
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Apr 06, 2012 |
Do big football clubs win more penalties?
|
Mar 30, 2012 |
What is the world average salary?
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Mar 23, 2012 |
Red meat death risk?
|
Mar 16, 2012 |
Is Apple worth more than Poland?
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Mar 09, 2012 |
Less than a dollar a day
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Mar 02, 2012 |
Syria poll and Europe’s work hours
|
Feb 24, 2012 |
Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day
|
Feb 17, 2012 |
Measuring famine
|
Feb 10, 2012 |
More alive than dead?
|
Feb 03, 2012 |
Sizing up cities
|
Jan 27, 2012 |
Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations
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Jan 20, 2012 |
Chavez's cancer claims
|
Jan 14, 2012 |
High speed rail
|
Jan 13, 2012 |
Using statistics in court
|
Jan 06, 2012 |
2011 in numbers
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Dec 30, 2011 |
Who are the 1% and the 99%?
|
Dec 23, 2011 |
Higgs boson statistics
|
Dec 16, 2011 |
Supermarket price wars
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Dec 09, 2011 |
Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
|
Dec 02, 2011 |
Brain Culture Part 3
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Nov 29, 2011 |
Brain Culture Part 2
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Nov 22, 2011 |
Brain Culture Part 1
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Nov 15, 2011 |
Government waste
|
Sep 09, 2011 |
A Euro Debt Odyssey
|
Sep 02, 2011 |
Scottish Independence
|
Aug 26, 2011 |
Is salt bad for you?
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Aug 19, 2011 |
The maths of rioting
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Aug 12, 2011 |
US debt
|
Aug 05, 2011 |
Public Sector Pay
|
May 13, 2011 |
Climate Refugees
|
May 07, 2011 |
Wedding Stats
|
Apr 29, 2011 |
How useful is GDP?
|
Apr 22, 2011 |
Tuition fees
|
Apr 15, 2011 |
Youth Unemployment
|
Apr 08, 2011 |
Small spending cuts?
|
Apr 01, 2011 |
The Story of Economics 'Monsters'
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Mar 30, 2011 |
The Story of Economics 'Cogs'
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Mar 23, 2011 |
The Story of Economics 'Gods'
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Mar 16, 2011 |
Health check
|
Jan 21, 2011 |
Street grooming
|
Jan 14, 2011 |
Big numbers
|
Jan 07, 2011 |
2010 in numbers
|
Dec 31, 2010 |
What the Dickens?
|
Dec 24, 2010 |
Council of despair
|
Dec 17, 2010 |
Degrees of Debt
|
Dec 10, 2010 |
Gay Britain
|
Oct 01, 2010 |
How welfare works
|
Sep 24, 2010 |
Who earns more?
|
Sep 17, 2010 |
Back to school
|
Sep 10, 2010 |
03 Sep 2010
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Sep 03, 2010 |