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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

8 mins; July 26, 2019

Missing women from drug trials

9 mins; July 19, 2019

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

8 mins; July 19, 2019

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

8 mins; July 05, 2019

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

9 mins; June 28, 2019

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

15 mins; June 21, 2019

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

9 mins; June 14, 2019

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

9 mins; June 10, 2019

Are married women flipping miserable?

23 mins; June 07, 2019

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

9 mins; June 03, 2019

Hay Festival Special

27 mins; May 31, 2019

WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician

10 mins; May 27, 2019

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

24 mins; May 24, 2019

Making music out of Money

9 mins; May 20, 2019

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

27 mins; May 17, 2019

Sex Every Seven Seconds

15 mins; May 13, 2019

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

27 mins; May 10, 2019

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

10 mins; May 06, 2019

Nurses, flatmates and cats

23 mins; May 03, 2019

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

9 mins; April 29, 2019

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

27 mins; April 26, 2019

The economic impact of mega sporting events

8 mins; April 19, 2019

Where is Scotland’s highest village?

8 mins; April 15, 2019

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

8 mins; April 08, 2019

Chess cheats and the GOAT

10 mins; April 02, 2019

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

8 mins; March 25, 2019

Day light saving time and heart attacks

8 mins; March 18, 2019

The gender gap in tech

9 mins; March 09, 2019

Insectageddon

12 mins; March 04, 2019

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

9 mins; February 22, 2019

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

9 mins; February 18, 2019

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

23 mins; February 15, 2019

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

18 mins; February 12, 2019

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

28 mins; February 08, 2019

WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!

9 mins; February 04, 2019

Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

28 mins; February 01, 2019

WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

9 mins; January 26, 2019

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

23 mins; January 25, 2019

WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

9 mins; January 19, 2019

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

30 mins; January 18, 2019

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

10 mins; January 12, 2019

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

28 mins; January 11, 2019

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

8 mins; January 04, 2019

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

8 mins; December 29, 2018

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

8 mins; December 22, 2018

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

8 mins; December 17, 2018

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

8 mins; November 30, 2018

WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

16 mins; November 23, 2018

WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

9 mins; November 16, 2018

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

8 mins; November 09, 2018

WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media

11 mins; October 28, 2018

WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?

8 mins; October 19, 2018

WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas

9 mins; October 12, 2018

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

9 mins; October 09, 2018

WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?

9 mins; October 07, 2018

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

20 mins; October 05, 2018

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

9 mins; October 01, 2018

Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland

22 mins; September 28, 2018

WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

8 mins; September 24, 2018

How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans

25 mins; September 21, 2018

WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?

9 mins; September 17, 2018

Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

24 mins; September 14, 2018

WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?

9 mins; September 10, 2018

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

23 mins; September 07, 2018

WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?

8 mins; September 03, 2018

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

23 mins; August 31, 2018

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys

28 mins; August 29, 2018

WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

8 mins; August 27, 2018

A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths

24 mins; August 24, 2018

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages

27 mins; August 22, 2018

WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?

8 mins; August 20, 2018

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

28 mins; August 15, 2018

Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

8 mins; August 10, 2018

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government

28 mins; August 08, 2018

Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

8 mins; August 03, 2018

Getting Creative with Statistics

8 mins; July 27, 2018

Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

10 mins; July 23, 2018

How to Cycle Really Fast

8 mins; July 20, 2018

Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

8 mins; July 06, 2018

Running at the World Cup

10 mins; June 29, 2018

How many words do you need to speak a language?

8 mins; June 22, 2018

FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

8 mins; June 15, 2018

WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

15 mins; June 10, 2018

Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate

24 mins; June 08, 2018

Counting Rough Sleepers

12 mins; June 04, 2018

The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry

20 mins; June 01, 2018

WS More or Less: Australia Calling

11 mins; May 28, 2018

Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials

23 mins; May 25, 2018

WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

9 mins; May 21, 2018

Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

24 mins; May 18, 2018

WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology

11 mins; May 14, 2018

Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths

23 mins; May 11, 2018

WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

9 mins; May 07, 2018

Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

23 mins; May 04, 2018

WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics

10 mins; April 29, 2018

Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

23 mins; April 27, 2018

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

8 mins; April 20, 2018

WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

9 mins; April 13, 2018

WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s

8 mins; April 08, 2018

WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

8 mins; March 29, 2018

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