More or Less: Behind the Stats
By BBC Radio 4
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Oct 24, 2020
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Oct 21, 2020
one of my favourites from the BBC
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Mar 22, 2020
Always interesting, often fascinating, sometimes depressing.
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Feb 16, 2020
I want to do a statistics course with these people
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Feb 15, 2019
a "loyal listener" since years ago. love it!!!!
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Bonus episode: The Autism Curve
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May 05, 2025 |
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Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check
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May 03, 2025 |
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Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The pioneers of proof
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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How much is a human life worth?
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Trump tariffs: All about the deficits
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Is one in four people in the UK disabled?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Why are more people claiming disability benefits?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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How did lockdown impact children?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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What is an IQ map and can we trust them?
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Are quantum computers already super-powerful?
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Numbers of the year part 2
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Numbers of the year 2024
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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What can economics learn from sport?
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Should the government target persnuffle?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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How do you count millionaires?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Who pays when trade wars heat up?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Where have Cuba’s people gone?
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Are companies making more money from their customers?
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Does a language die every two weeks?
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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The magic of trigonometry
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Election claims and erection claims
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Shakespeare’s maths
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Data for India
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
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May 29, 2024 |
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
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May 25, 2024 |
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MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
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May 22, 2024 |
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
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May 18, 2024 |
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
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May 11, 2024 |
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
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May 04, 2024 |
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Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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What's happening to Arctic ice?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Debt, students, shark and chips
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The global gender split in young people’s politics
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Deaths, taxes and missing cats
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Numbers of the year 2023
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Can chocolate be better than salad?
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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China’s missing numbers
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Will there be a billion climate refugees?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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A boy meets girl meets stats story
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Are half the words in English from French?
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Which city has the longest canals?
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How to approach the world through numbers
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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How many butterflies are there in the world?
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Data, extreme weather and climate change
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Counting Hunger in India
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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A short history of data
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
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May 31, 2023 |
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Are young people more single than ever before?
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May 28, 2023 |
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NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
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May 24, 2023 |
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Detecting Bad Science with Data
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May 20, 2023 |
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Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
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May 13, 2023 |
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Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
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May 06, 2023 |
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How much is the Coronation crown worth?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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How accurate is baby's due date?
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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How to better understand and explain numbers
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Spreadsheet disasters
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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How we shook the world of very large numbers
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Irish pubs - a global numbers game
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Numbers of the Year 2022
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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When do food shortages become a famine?
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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A $220 billion World Cup?
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Improving the numbers in the news
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Ukraine’s progress in numbers
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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How bad is fashion for the environment?
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Can we use maths to beat the robots?
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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The numbers behind “natural” birth control
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Is opinion polling broken?
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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How our world measures up
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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How often do people have sex?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Noisy Decisions
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May 28, 2022 |
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Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
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May 25, 2022 |
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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
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May 21, 2022 |
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
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May 14, 2022 |
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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
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May 07, 2022 |
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Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Understanding India through Data
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Pizza and Nuclear War
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Did lockdowns save any lives?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Questioning claims about Covid and children
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Testosterone and sport
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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The prime minister in statistical bother
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Can you fool your brain?
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Numbers of 2021
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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The psychological economics of gift giving
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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A TikTok tale
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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The art of counting
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The numbers behind Squid Game
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Twenty years of More or Less
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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The Gender Pay Gap
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Is it easy being green?
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Death, Tax and Dishwashers
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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The Bill for Afghanistan
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Breaking Climate Records
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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The Rise of Delta
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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The Freedom Day Gamble
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Maths and the Mayflower
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The origins of Covid
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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The doubling of life-expectancy
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
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May 29, 2021 |
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Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
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May 26, 2021 |
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
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May 22, 2021 |
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Explaining maths without Numbers
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May 15, 2021 |
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Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
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May 08, 2021 |
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
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May 02, 2021 |
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Too fast for Minecraft?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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In praise of Covid Data
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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The truth about obesity and Covid 19
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Sainthood and Cup draws
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Why are US Covid cases falling?
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
|
Feb 20, 2021 |
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
|
Feb 17, 2021 |
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How much Covid in the World?
|
Feb 13, 2021 |
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Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
|
Feb 10, 2021 |
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Glasgow vs Rwanda
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
|
Feb 03, 2021 |
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The Rapid Test Row
|
Jan 30, 2021 |
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
|
Jan 27, 2021 |
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
|
Jan 27, 2021 |
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
|
Jan 23, 2021 |
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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
|
Jan 20, 2021 |
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How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
|
Jan 14, 2021 |
|
Ants and Algorithms
|
Jan 09, 2021 |
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Numbers of the year: Part two
|
Jan 08, 2021 |
|
Numbers of the year: Part one
|
Jan 08, 2021 |
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The economics of a Covid Christmas
|
Dec 19, 2020 |
|
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
|
Dec 12, 2020 |
|
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
|
Dec 05, 2020 |
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Tracking Covid 19
|
Nov 28, 2020 |
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Inviting Covid for Dinner
|
Nov 21, 2020 |
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Vaccine numbers
|
Nov 14, 2020 |
|
How deadly is Covid 19?
|
Nov 07, 2020 |
|
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
|
Oct 31, 2020 |
|
US election: facts or fiction
|
Oct 24, 2020 |
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
|
Oct 17, 2020 |
|
A short history of probability
|
Oct 10, 2020 |
|
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
|
Oct 07, 2020 |
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“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
|
Sep 30, 2020 |
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Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
|
Sep 23, 2020 |
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The magical maths of pool testing
|
Sep 19, 2020 |
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Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
|
Sep 16, 2020 |
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Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
|
Sep 09, 2020 |
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Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
|
Sep 02, 2020 |
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Covid plasma therapy
|
Aug 26, 2020 |
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A-level algorithms, poker and buses
|
Aug 19, 2020 |
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Belarus’ contested election
|
Aug 15, 2020 |
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Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
|
Aug 12, 2020 |
|
Melting Antarctic ice
|
Aug 08, 2020 |
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Covid in Africa
|
Aug 01, 2020 |
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Data in the time of cholera
|
Jul 25, 2020 |
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Covid misconceptions and US deaths
|
Jul 18, 2020 |
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Sweden’s lockdown lite
|
Jul 11, 2020 |
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Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
|
Jul 04, 2020 |
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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
|
Jul 01, 2020 |
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A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
|
Jun 27, 2020 |
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Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
|
Jun 24, 2020 |
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Who Should be Quarantined?
|
Jun 20, 2020 |
|
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
|
Jun 17, 2020 |
|
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
|
Jun 10, 2020 |
|
Keep your distance
|
Jun 06, 2020 |
|
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
|
Jun 03, 2020 |
|
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
|
May 27, 2020 |
|
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
|
May 23, 2020 |
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School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
|
May 20, 2020 |
|
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
|
May 16, 2020 |
|
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
|
May 13, 2020 |
|
Covid-19 fatality rate
|
May 09, 2020 |
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Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
|
May 06, 2020 |
|
Climate change and birdsong
|
May 02, 2020 |
|
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
|
Apr 29, 2020 |
|
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
|
Apr 25, 2020 |
|
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
|
Apr 23, 2020 |
|
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
|
Apr 22, 2020 |
|
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
|
Apr 18, 2020 |
|
Should you wear a face mask?
|
Apr 11, 2020 |
|
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
|
Apr 08, 2020 |
|
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
|
Apr 04, 2020 |
|
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
|
Mar 31, 2020 |
|
The Risk
|
Mar 28, 2020 |
|
Coronavirus Special
|
Mar 25, 2020 |
|
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
|
Mar 21, 2020 |
|
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
|
Mar 14, 2020 |
|
How much heat do you lose from your head?
|
Mar 09, 2020 |
|
Netflix vs the environment
|
Feb 29, 2020 |
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More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
|
Feb 28, 2020 |
|
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
|
Feb 22, 2020 |
|
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
|
Feb 15, 2020 |
|
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
|
Feb 14, 2020 |
|
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
|
Feb 08, 2020 |
|
Tracking terror suspects
|
Feb 07, 2020 |
|
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
|
Feb 01, 2020 |
|
Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
|
Jan 31, 2020 |
|
WS More or Less: Dozy Science
|
Jan 25, 2020 |
|
Netflix and Chill
|
Jan 24, 2020 |
|
WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
|
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Is dementia the number one killer?
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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US election, stray cats and puzzles
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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Trump tells the Truth
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
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Sep 18, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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Irish Passports
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Death Penalty abolition
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Gender Pay Gap
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
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Aug 22, 2016 |
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Counting Terror Deaths
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
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Aug 15, 2016 |
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Grammar Schools
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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Plastic Bags
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
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Aug 01, 2016 |
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The Supermarket Effect
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures
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Jul 22, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Brexit Economics
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Jun 24, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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The Referendum by Numbers: Law
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: HIV in Africa
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
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May 27, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
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May 20, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city
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May 13, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
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May 09, 2016 |
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The most profitable product in history
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May 06, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
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May 02, 2016 |
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EU Migration
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Brexit numbers
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Apr 22, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Celebrity deaths
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The story of average
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Fathers and babies
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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The Great EU Cabbage Myth
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
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Feb 26, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
|
Feb 15, 2016 |
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Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
|
Feb 12, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
|
Feb 08, 2016 |
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E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
|
Feb 05, 2016 |
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Swedish refugees
|
Feb 01, 2016 |
|
How harmful is alcohol?
|
Jan 29, 2016 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
|
Jan 25, 2016 |
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Billionaires versus the world
|
Jan 22, 2016 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
|
Jan 18, 2016 |
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Weekend Stroke Deaths
|
Jan 15, 2016 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
|
Jan 11, 2016 |
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Flood Defence Spending
|
Jan 08, 2016 |
|
WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
|
Jan 04, 2016 |
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Numbers of the Year 2015
|
Jan 01, 2016 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
|
Dec 25, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
|
Dec 18, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
|
Dec 11, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change
|
Dec 08, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis
|
Nov 27, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer
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Oct 30, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Oil
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Oct 23, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
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Oct 16, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché
|
Oct 02, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?
|
Sep 28, 2015 |
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Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate
|
Sep 25, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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Striking Numbers
|
Sep 18, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
|
Sep 14, 2015 |
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Is it worth targetting non-voters?
|
Sep 11, 2015 |
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Queuing Backwards
|
Sep 07, 2015 |
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Fit for work or at deaths door?
|
Sep 04, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
|
Aug 31, 2015 |
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China Stock Market Crash
|
Aug 28, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
|
Aug 24, 2015 |
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Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
|
Aug 21, 2015 |
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WS More or Less: Worm wars
|
Aug 17, 2015 |
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Migrant Crisis
|
Aug 14, 2015 |
|
WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
|
Aug 07, 2015 |
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WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
|
Jul 31, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy
|
Jul 24, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
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Jul 17, 2015 |
|
Greece Special
|
Jul 10, 2015 |
|
Biggest Movies
|
Jun 26, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
|
Jun 19, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
|
Jun 13, 2015 |
|
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
|
Jun 12, 2015 |
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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 |
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Female Drink Drivers
|
May 22, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
|
May 16, 2015 |
|
Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
|
May 15, 2015 |
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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
|
May 02, 2015 |
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Polls, nuns and life partners
|
May 01, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
|
Apr 25, 2015 |
|
UK Election Podcast 3
|
Apr 24, 2015 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
|
Mar 21, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
|
Mar 14, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
|
Mar 07, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
|
Feb 28, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
|
Feb 21, 2015 |
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The mathematical secrets to relationships
|
Feb 14, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
|
Feb 09, 2015 |
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Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
|
Feb 06, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
|
Feb 02, 2015 |
|
Cameron’s 1000 jobs
|
Jan 30, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
|
Jan 26, 2015 |
|
Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
|
Jan 23, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
|
Jan 19, 2015 |
|
How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
|
Jan 16, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
|
Jan 12, 2015 |
|
A&E waiting times
|
Jan 09, 2015 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
|
Jan 04, 2015 |
|
Numbers of the Year 2014.
|
Jan 02, 2015 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
|
Dec 27, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
|
Dec 20, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
|
Dec 13, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
|
Dec 06, 2014 |
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Teenage Pregnancy
|
Nov 29, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
|
Nov 22, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide
|
Nov 15, 2014 |
|
Tracking and Tackling Ebola
|
Nov 08, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation
|
Nov 01, 2014 |
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Screening for Ebola
|
Oct 25, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Big Data
|
Oct 18, 2014 |
|
Species in Decline?
|
Oct 11, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
|
Oct 06, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
|
Sep 29, 2014 |
|
The Barnett Formula
|
Sep 26, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
|
Sep 22, 2014 |
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Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match
|
Sep 19, 2014 |
|
Shakespeare vs Rappers
|
Sep 15, 2014 |
|
Scottish referendum polls
|
Sep 12, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
|
Sep 08, 2014 |
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To ice or not to ice?
|
Sep 05, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?
|
Sep 01, 2014 |
|
How Deadly Is Ebola?
|
Aug 29, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza
|
Aug 25, 2014 |
|
Troubled families?
|
Aug 22, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism
|
Aug 18, 2014 |
|
Student Loans
|
Aug 15, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Ebola
|
Aug 10, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
|
Aug 02, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
|
Jul 26, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
|
Jul 19, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket
|
Jul 12, 2014 |
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Will we die before our parents?
|
Jul 05, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?
|
Jun 28, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
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Jun 21, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?
|
Jun 16, 2014 |
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Faith and Charity?
|
Jun 13, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'
|
Jun 09, 2014 |
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What's Scottish Independence Worth?
|
Jun 06, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
|
Jun 02, 2014 |
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The Piketty Affair
|
May 30, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy
|
May 26, 2014 |
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Romanian Crime
|
May 23, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?
|
May 19, 2014 |
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Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats
|
May 16, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar
|
May 12, 2014 |
|
Food Bank Britain
|
May 09, 2014 |
|
Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat
|
May 05, 2014 |
|
British Law - Made in Brussels?
|
May 02, 2014 |
|
Killed for being female?
|
Apr 26, 2014 |
|
Magic Numbers
|
Apr 19, 2014 |
|
Nigeria - rich or poor?
|
Apr 12, 2014 |
|
Freedom in Numbers
|
Apr 05, 2014 |
|
Is London France’s sixth largest city?
|
Mar 29, 2014 |
|
Missing planes
|
Mar 22, 2014 |
|
Mailbox edition
|
Mar 15, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
|
Mar 08, 2014 |
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The 10,000 hours rule
|
Mar 01, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
|
Feb 22, 2014 |
|
Love by numbers
|
Feb 15, 2014 |
|
Rising drug overdose deaths
|
Feb 10, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
|
Feb 03, 2014 |
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The 50p tax rate
|
Jan 31, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
|
Jan 27, 2014 |
|
Immigration
|
Jan 24, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
|
Jan 20, 2014 |
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Obesity crisis?
|
Jan 17, 2014 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
|
Jan 13, 2014 |
|
The week that kills
|
Jan 10, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
|
Jan 04, 2014 |
|
Pension Charges
|
Jan 03, 2014 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
|
Dec 28, 2013 |
|
Numbers of the year
|
Dec 27, 2013 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
|
Dec 21, 2013 |
|
Britain's 80,000 homeless children
|
Dec 20, 2013 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
|
Dec 14, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
|
Dec 07, 2013 |
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Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
|
Nov 30, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
|
Nov 23, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
|
Nov 16, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
|
Nov 09, 2013 |
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100,000 Christian martyrs?
|
Nov 02, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
|
Oct 26, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
|
Oct 19, 2013 |
|
The Hawthorne Effect
|
Oct 12, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
|
Oct 07, 2013 |
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Underage drinking
|
Oct 04, 2013 |
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WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
|
Sep 30, 2013 |
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NHS hospital deaths
|
Sep 27, 2013 |
|
Formula 1 racing risk
|
Sep 23, 2013 |
|
Do free school meals work?
|
Sep 20, 2013 |
|
Sexual violence statistics in Asia
|
Sep 16, 2013 |
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Fertility: when is too late?
|
Sep 13, 2013 |
|
The death toll in Syria
|
Sep 09, 2013 |
|
The Death Toll in Syria
|
Sep 06, 2013 |
|
Counting climate migrants
|
Aug 31, 2013 |
|
What price the life of a badger?
|
Aug 30, 2013 |
|
Is coffee bad for you?
|
Aug 24, 2013 |
|
The magic of maths
|
Aug 17, 2013 |
|
Where could we fit the entire world’s population?
|
Aug 10, 2013 |
|
What is the most visited country in the world?
|
Aug 03, 2013 |
|
Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
|
Jul 27, 2013 |
|
Egypt: Biggest protest in history?
|
Jul 13, 2013 |
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Sex and the world wide web
|
Jul 06, 2013 |
|
How long will you live?
|
Jun 29, 2013 |
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Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?
|
Jun 22, 2013 |
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Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?
|
Jun 15, 2013 |
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Sex on the Brain?
|
Jun 10, 2013 |
|
A&E, and the chances of having twins
|
Jun 07, 2013 |
|
The maths of spies and terrorists
|
Jun 03, 2013 |
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The maths of spies and terrorists
|
May 31, 2013 |
|
Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers
|
May 27, 2013 |
|
The economics of Scottish independence
|
May 24, 2013 |
|
Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
|
May 20, 2013 |
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Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
|
May 17, 2013 |
|
How old is your dog?
|
May 13, 2013 |
|
How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years
|
May 10, 2013 |
|
The Maths of Mozart and Birds
|
May 06, 2013 |
|
Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher
|
May 03, 2013 |
|
Are Man Utd a one-man team?
|
Apr 27, 2013 |
|
Austerity: a spreadsheet error?
|
Apr 22, 2013 |
|
Thatcher in numbers
|
Apr 15, 2013 |
|
Communicating Risk
|
Apr 08, 2013 |
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That's not much gold
|
Mar 30, 2013 |
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Can big data save lives?
|
Mar 25, 2013 |
|
Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
|
Mar 18, 2013 |
|
HIV in numbers
|
Mar 11, 2013 |
|
Is the Kenyan election already decided?
|
Mar 04, 2013 |
|
Counting Catholics
|
Feb 25, 2013 |
|
How many people support Manchester United?
|
Feb 18, 2013 |
|
The end of the Penny
|
Feb 11, 2013 |
|
A case of statistical significance in Greece
|
Feb 04, 2013 |
|
Fat or Fiction
|
Jan 28, 2013 |
|
WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides
|
Jan 21, 2013 |
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Pop up economics
|
Jan 16, 2013 |
|
Food waste and Scrabble
|
Jan 14, 2013 |
|
The Parable of the Ox
|
Jan 07, 2013 |
|
The Parable of the Ox
|
Jan 04, 2013 |
|
Numbers of 2012
|
Dec 31, 2012 |
|
Numbers of 2012
|
Dec 28, 2012 |
|
Gun Statistics
|
Dec 24, 2012 |
|
Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
|
Dec 21, 2012 |
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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
|
Dec 17, 2012 |
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The Census and what does 'rare' mean?
|
Dec 14, 2012 |
|
World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins
|
Dec 10, 2012 |
|
Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement
|
Dec 07, 2012 |
|
More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?
|
Dec 03, 2012 |
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More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego
|
Nov 30, 2012 |
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Fergie Time
|
Nov 26, 2012 |
|
Ash Die Back and Fergie Time
|
Nov 23, 2012 |
|
Brain Food and Bacteria
|
Nov 19, 2012 |
|
Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election
|
Nov 12, 2012 |
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Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?
|
Nov 05, 2012 |
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Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?
|
Oct 29, 2012 |
|
Life-saving economics
|
Oct 22, 2012 |
|
Predicting the global population
|
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Predicting the Presidency
|
Oct 08, 2012 |
|
Plenty more fish in the sea?
|
Oct 01, 2012 |
|
Factchecking America
|
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Investigating crime statistics
|
Sep 17, 2012 |
|
Where are the Paralympics Medals?
|
Sep 10, 2012 |
|
How to explain infinity to a 4-year-old
|
Sep 03, 2012 |
|
Are African leaders more likely to die in office?
|
Aug 27, 2012 |
|
Levelling the statistical playing field
|
Aug 20, 2012 |
|
The great playing field sell off?
|
Aug 17, 2012 |
|
How to lose money - fast!
|
Aug 13, 2012 |
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How to lose money - fast!
|
Aug 10, 2012 |
|
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS
|
Aug 04, 2012 |
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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
|
Aug 03, 2012 |
|
Gun laws and gold medals (WS)
|
Jul 28, 2012 |
|
Gun laws and gold medals
|
Jul 27, 2012 |
|
Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS)
|
Jul 21, 2012 |
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Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?
|
Jul 20, 2012 |
|
Who are the Libor losers?
|
Jul 14, 2012 |
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More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)
|
Jul 14, 2012 |
|
Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS)
|
Jul 06, 2012 |
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Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)
|
Jun 29, 2012 |
|
(WS) Weight of the world
|
Jun 23, 2012 |
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(WS) Chance encounters
|
Jun 18, 2012 |
|
Interview with Daniel Kahneman
|
Jun 11, 2012 |
|
Counting images of The Queen. (WS)
|
Jun 04, 2012 |
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Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)
|
May 28, 2012 |
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The maths of infidelity (WS)
|
May 25, 2012 |
|
Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)
|
May 21, 2012 |
|
Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4)
|
May 17, 2012 |
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Trouble on the Greek railways (WS)
|
May 14, 2012 |
|
Are CEOs worth it? (R4)
|
May 11, 2012 |
|
A grand economic experiment? (WS)
|
May 04, 2012 |
|
Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)
|
May 04, 2012 |
|
The formula that changed the world
|
Apr 27, 2012 |
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The formula that changed the world
|
Apr 27, 2012 |
|
20 Apr 12
|
Apr 20, 2012 |
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20 Apr 12
|
Apr 20, 2012 |
|
Eurostats - True or False?
|
Apr 13, 2012 |
|
Stamp prices and the first maths book
|
Apr 06, 2012 |
|
Do big football clubs win more penalties?
|
Mar 30, 2012 |
|
What is the world average salary?
|
Mar 23, 2012 |
|
Red meat death risk?
|
Mar 16, 2012 |
|
Is Apple worth more than Poland?
|
Mar 09, 2012 |
|
Less than a dollar a day
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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Syria poll and Europe’s work hours
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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Measuring famine
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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More alive than dead?
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Feb 03, 2012 |
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Sizing up cities
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Jan 27, 2012 |
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Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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Chavez's cancer claims
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Jan 14, 2012 |
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High speed rail
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Jan 13, 2012 |
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Using statistics in court
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Jan 06, 2012 |
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2011 in numbers
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Dec 30, 2011 |
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Who are the 1% and the 99%?
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Dec 23, 2011 |
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Higgs boson statistics
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Dec 16, 2011 |
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Supermarket price wars
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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Brain Culture Part 3
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Nov 29, 2011 |
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Brain Culture Part 2
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Brain Culture Part 1
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Government waste
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Sep 09, 2011 |
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A Euro Debt Odyssey
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Sep 02, 2011 |
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Scottish Independence
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Aug 26, 2011 |
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Is salt bad for you?
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Aug 19, 2011 |
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The maths of rioting
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Aug 12, 2011 |
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US debt
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Aug 05, 2011 |
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Public Sector Pay
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May 13, 2011 |
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Climate Refugees
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May 07, 2011 |
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Wedding Stats
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Apr 29, 2011 |
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How useful is GDP?
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Apr 22, 2011 |
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Tuition fees
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Apr 15, 2011 |
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Youth Unemployment
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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Small spending cuts?
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Apr 01, 2011 |
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The Story of Economics 'Monsters'
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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The Story of Economics 'Cogs'
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Mar 23, 2011 |
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The Story of Economics 'Gods'
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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Health check
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Jan 21, 2011 |
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Street grooming
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Jan 14, 2011 |
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Big numbers
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Jan 07, 2011 |
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2010 in numbers
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Dec 31, 2010 |
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What the Dickens?
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Dec 24, 2010 |
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Council of despair
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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Degrees of Debt
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Dec 10, 2010 |
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Gay Britain
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Oct 01, 2010 |
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How welfare works
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Sep 24, 2010 |
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Who earns more?
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Sep 17, 2010 |
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Back to school
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Sep 10, 2010 |
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03 Sep 2010
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Sep 03, 2010 |