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Oct 24, 2020
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one of my favourites from the BBC
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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Will there be a billion climate refugees?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
A boy meets girl meets stats story
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
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Nov 18, 2023 |
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
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Nov 11, 2023 |
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
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Nov 04, 2023 |
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
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Oct 28, 2023 |
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
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Oct 21, 2023 |
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
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Oct 14, 2023 |
Are half the words in English from French?
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Oct 07, 2023 |
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
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Sep 30, 2023 |
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Which city has the longest canals?
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Sep 23, 2023 |
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
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Sep 20, 2023 |
How to approach the world through numbers
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Sep 16, 2023 |
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
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Sep 06, 2023 |
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
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Aug 30, 2023 |
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
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Aug 26, 2023 |
How many butterflies are there in the world?
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Aug 19, 2023 |
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
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Aug 12, 2023 |
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
Data, extreme weather and climate change
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Jul 29, 2023 |
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
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Jul 15, 2023 |
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 08, 2023 |
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
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Jul 05, 2023 |
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
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Jul 01, 2023 |
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
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Jun 17, 2023 |
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Counting Hunger in India
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Jun 10, 2023 |
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
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Jun 07, 2023 |
A short history of data
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Jun 03, 2023 |
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
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May 31, 2023 |
Are young people more single than ever before?
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May 28, 2023 |
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
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May 24, 2023 |
Detecting Bad Science with Data
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May 20, 2023 |
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
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May 13, 2023 |
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
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May 06, 2023 |
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
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Apr 22, 2023 |
How accurate is baby's due date?
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Apr 15, 2023 |
How to better understand and explain numbers
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Apr 08, 2023 |
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
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Mar 25, 2023 |
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
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Mar 18, 2023 |
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
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Mar 11, 2023 |
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
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Mar 04, 2023 |
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
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Feb 25, 2023 |
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
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Feb 22, 2023 |
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
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Feb 18, 2023 |
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
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Feb 15, 2023 |
Spreadsheet disasters
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Feb 11, 2023 |
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
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Feb 04, 2023 |
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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Jan 28, 2023 |
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
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Jan 18, 2023 |
How we shook the world of very large numbers
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Jan 14, 2023 |
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
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Dec 31, 2022 |
Numbers of the Year 2022
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Dec 24, 2022 |
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
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Dec 17, 2022 |
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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Dec 10, 2022 |
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
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Dec 03, 2022 |
When do food shortages become a famine?
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Nov 26, 2022 |
A $220 billion World Cup?
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Nov 19, 2022 |
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Improving the numbers in the news
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Nov 12, 2022 |
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
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Nov 05, 2022 |
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
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Oct 29, 2022 |
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
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Oct 22, 2022 |
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
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Oct 15, 2022 |
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
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Oct 08, 2022 |
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
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Oct 07, 2022 |
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
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Oct 01, 2022 |
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
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Sep 24, 2022 |
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
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Sep 22, 2022 |
How bad is fashion for the environment?
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Sep 17, 2022 |
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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Sep 10, 2022 |
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
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Sep 07, 2022 |
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
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Sep 03, 2022 |
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
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Aug 27, 2022 |
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
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Aug 20, 2022 |
Is opinion polling broken?
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Aug 13, 2022 |
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
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Aug 06, 2022 |
How our world measures up
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Jul 30, 2022 |
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
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Jul 23, 2022 |
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
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Jul 16, 2022 |
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Jul 09, 2022 |
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
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Jul 02, 2022 |
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
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Jun 25, 2022 |
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
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Jun 22, 2022 |
How often do people have sex?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
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Jun 11, 2022 |
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
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Jun 04, 2022 |
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Noisy Decisions
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May 28, 2022 |
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
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May 25, 2022 |
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
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May 21, 2022 |
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
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May 14, 2022 |
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
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May 07, 2022 |
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
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Apr 30, 2022 |
Understanding India through Data
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Apr 23, 2022 |
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
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Apr 09, 2022 |
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
Pizza and Nuclear War
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Mar 20, 2022 |
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Did lockdowns save any lives?
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Feb 27, 2022 |
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Questioning claims about Covid and children
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Feb 16, 2022 |
Testosterone and sport
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Feb 13, 2022 |
The prime minister in statistical bother
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Feb 09, 2022 |
Can you fool your brain?
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Feb 06, 2022 |
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
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Jan 26, 2022 |
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
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Jan 12, 2022 |
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
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Jan 09, 2022 |
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Numbers of 2021
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Dec 26, 2021 |
The psychological economics of gift giving
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Dec 19, 2021 |
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
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Nov 28, 2021 |
A TikTok tale
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Nov 21, 2021 |
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
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Nov 07, 2021 |
The art of counting
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Oct 31, 2021 |
The numbers behind Squid Game
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Oct 24, 2021 |
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Twenty years of More or Less
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Oct 06, 2021 |
The Gender Pay Gap
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Is it easy being green?
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
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Sep 22, 2021 |
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
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Sep 08, 2021 |
The Bill for Afghanistan
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Sep 04, 2021 |
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
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Sep 01, 2021 |
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
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Aug 28, 2021 |
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
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Aug 21, 2021 |
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
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Aug 07, 2021 |
Breaking Climate Records
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Jul 31, 2021 |
The Rise of Delta
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Jul 24, 2021 |
The Freedom Day Gamble
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
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Jul 10, 2021 |
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
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Jul 03, 2021 |
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Maths and the Mayflower
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
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Jun 23, 2021 |
The origins of Covid
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
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Jun 16, 2021 |
The doubling of life-expectancy
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Jun 12, 2021 |
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
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Jun 02, 2021 |
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
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May 29, 2021 |
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
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May 26, 2021 |
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
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May 22, 2021 |
Explaining maths without Numbers
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May 15, 2021 |
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
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May 08, 2021 |
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
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May 02, 2021 |
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
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Apr 24, 2021 |
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
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Apr 17, 2021 |
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
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Apr 10, 2021 |
Too fast for Minecraft?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
In praise of Covid Data
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Mar 27, 2021 |
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
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Mar 20, 2021 |
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
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Mar 13, 2021 |
Sainthood and Cup draws
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Mar 06, 2021 |
Why are US Covid cases falling?
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Feb 27, 2021 |
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
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Feb 20, 2021 |
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
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Feb 17, 2021 |
How much Covid in the World?
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Feb 13, 2021 |
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Glasgow vs Rwanda
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Feb 06, 2021 |
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
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Feb 03, 2021 |
The Rapid Test Row
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Jan 30, 2021 |
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
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Jan 23, 2021 |
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
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Jan 20, 2021 |
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
Ants and Algorithms
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Jan 09, 2021 |
Numbers of the year: Part two
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Jan 08, 2021 |
Numbers of the year: Part one
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Jan 08, 2021 |
The economics of a Covid Christmas
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Dec 19, 2020 |
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
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Dec 12, 2020 |
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
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Dec 05, 2020 |
Tracking Covid 19
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Nov 28, 2020 |
Inviting Covid for Dinner
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Nov 21, 2020 |
Vaccine numbers
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Nov 14, 2020 |
How deadly is Covid 19?
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Nov 07, 2020 |
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
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Oct 31, 2020 |
US election: facts or fiction
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Oct 24, 2020 |
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
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Oct 17, 2020 |
A short history of probability
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Oct 10, 2020 |
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
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Oct 07, 2020 |
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
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Sep 23, 2020 |
The magical maths of pool testing
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Sep 19, 2020 |
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
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Sep 16, 2020 |
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
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Sep 09, 2020 |
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
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Sep 02, 2020 |
Covid plasma therapy
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Aug 26, 2020 |
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
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Aug 19, 2020 |
Belarus’ contested election
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Aug 15, 2020 |
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
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Aug 12, 2020 |
Melting Antarctic ice
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Aug 08, 2020 |
Covid in Africa
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Aug 01, 2020 |
Data in the time of cholera
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Jul 25, 2020 |
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
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Jul 18, 2020 |
Sweden’s lockdown lite
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Jul 11, 2020 |
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
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Jul 04, 2020 |
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
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Jul 01, 2020 |
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
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Jun 27, 2020 |
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
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Jun 24, 2020 |
Who Should be Quarantined?
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Jun 20, 2020 |
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
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Jun 17, 2020 |
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
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Jun 10, 2020 |
Keep your distance
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Jun 06, 2020 |
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
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Jun 03, 2020 |
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
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May 27, 2020 |
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
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May 23, 2020 |
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
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May 20, 2020 |
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
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May 16, 2020 |
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
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May 13, 2020 |
Covid-19 fatality rate
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May 09, 2020 |
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
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May 06, 2020 |
Climate change and birdsong
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May 02, 2020 |
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
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Apr 29, 2020 |
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
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Apr 25, 2020 |
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
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Apr 22, 2020 |
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
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Apr 18, 2020 |
Should you wear a face mask?
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Apr 11, 2020 |
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
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Apr 08, 2020 |
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
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Apr 04, 2020 |
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
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Mar 31, 2020 |
The Risk
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Mar 28, 2020 |
Coronavirus Special
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Mar 25, 2020 |
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
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Mar 21, 2020 |
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
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Mar 14, 2020 |
How much heat do you lose from your head?
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Mar 09, 2020 |
Netflix vs the environment
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Feb 29, 2020 |
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
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Feb 22, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
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Feb 15, 2020 |
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
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Feb 14, 2020 |
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
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Feb 08, 2020 |
Tracking terror suspects
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Feb 07, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
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Feb 01, 2020 |
Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
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Jan 31, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Dozy Science
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Jan 25, 2020 |
Netflix and Chill
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Jan 24, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
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Jan 18, 2020 |
Weighing the Cost of Brexit
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Jan 17, 2020 |
WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
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Jan 11, 2020 |
Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
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Jan 10, 2020 |
C-sections and sharks
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Jan 04, 2020 |
Presidential candidates and dementia
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Dec 28, 2019 |
The Simpsons and maths
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Dec 20, 2019 |
Koalas
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Election Special (2/2)
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Dec 10, 2019 |
Tree Planting Pledges
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Dec 06, 2019 |
Election Special 1/2
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Testing tomatoes
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Nov 29, 2019 |
The world’s busiest shipping lanes
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Nov 23, 2019 |
Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
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Nov 15, 2019 |
Reducing your risk of death
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Nov 09, 2019 |
Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
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Nov 01, 2019 |
Edith Abbott and crime statistics
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Oct 28, 2019 |
Esther Duflo and women in economics
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Oct 18, 2019 |
The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
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Oct 11, 2019 |
WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
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Oct 07, 2019 |
New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
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Oct 04, 2019 |