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Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?

8 februari | 9 min

Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

1 februari | 9 min

Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

25 januari | 9 min

Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

18 januari | 9 min

Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

11 januari | 9 min

Numbers of the year part 2

4 januari | 9 min

Numbers of the year 2024

28 december 2024 | 9 min

Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

21 december 2024 | 9 min

How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?

14 december 2024 | 9 min

Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

7 december 2024 | 10 min

Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

30 november 2024 | 9 min

Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

23 november 2024 | 9 min

Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?

16 november 2024 | 9 min

Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

9 november 2024 | 10 min

What can economics learn from sport?

2 november 2024 | 9 min

Are older drivers more dangerous?

30 oktober 2024 | 28 min

Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

26 oktober 2024 | 10 min

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

23 oktober 2024 | 28 min

Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

19 oktober 2024 | 9 min

When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

16 oktober 2024 | 29 min

Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

12 oktober 2024 | 9 min

Should the government target persnuffle?

9 oktober 2024 | 28 min

Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

5 oktober 2024 | 10 min

How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

2 oktober 2024 | 29 min

The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

28 september 2024 | 9 min

Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

25 september 2024 | 29 min

Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

21 september 2024 | 10 min

How do you count millionaires?

18 september 2024 | 29 min

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

14 september 2024 | 9 min

How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

11 september 2024 | 28 min

Who pays when trade wars heat up?

7 september 2024 | 9 min

Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

4 september 2024 | 29 min

Where have Cuba’s people gone?

31 augusti 2024 | 9 min

Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

24 augusti 2024 | 9 min

Are companies making more money from their customers?

17 augusti 2024 | 9 min

Is planet Earth getting greener?

10 augusti 2024 | 11 min

Does a language die every two weeks?

3 augusti 2024 | 10 min

Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

27 juli 2024 | 13 min

Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

20 juli 2024 | 10 min

Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

13 juli 2024 | 9 min

The magic of trigonometry

6 juli 2024 | 10 min

Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

3 juli 2024 | 37 min

How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

29 juni 2024 | 9 min

Election claims and erection claims

26 juni 2024 | 28 min

Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

22 juni 2024 | 10 min

Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

19 juni 2024 | 32 min

Shakespeare’s maths

15 juni 2024 | 10 min

Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

12 juni 2024 | 29 min

Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

8 juni 2024 | 9 min

Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

5 juni 2024 | 30 min

Data for India

1 juni 2024 | 9 min

UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

29 maj 2024 | 29 min

Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

25 maj 2024 | 10 min

MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

22 maj 2024 | 29 min

Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

18 maj 2024 | 10 min

Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

11 maj 2024 | 10 min

Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

4 maj 2024 | 10 min

Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

26 april 2024 | 9 min

98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

20 april 2024 | 12 min

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

13 april 2024 | 9 min

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

6 april 2024 | 9 min

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

30 mars 2024 | 9 min

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

28 mars 2024 | 9 min

What's happening to Arctic ice?

25 mars 2024 | 10 min

Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

16 mars 2024 | 9 min

Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

9 mars 2024 | 9 min

Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

2 mars 2024 | 9 min

School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

28 februari 2024 | 29 min

NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

24 februari 2024 | 9 min

Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

21 februari 2024 | 28 min

The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

17 februari 2024 | 10 min

Debt, students, shark and chips

14 februari 2024 | 29 min

The global gender split in young people’s politics

10 februari 2024 | 9 min

Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

7 februari 2024 | 29 min

A pocket-size history of the calculator

3 februari 2024 | 9 min

Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

31 januari 2024 | 29 min

Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?

27 januari 2024 | 10 min

Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

24 januari 2024 | 29 min

Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

20 januari 2024 | 9 min

Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

17 januari 2024 | 24 min

Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

13 januari 2024 | 9 min

Deaths, taxes and missing cats

10 januari 2024 | 29 min

How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?

6 januari 2024 | 9 min

Numbers of the year 2023

30 december 2023 | 13 min

Can chocolate be better than salad?

23 december 2023 | 9 min

China’s missing numbers

16 december 2023 | 9 min

Does endurance sport harm your heart?

9 december 2023 | 9 min

Will there be a billion climate refugees?

2 december 2023 | 10 min

A boy meets girl meets stats story

25 november 2023 | 9 min

Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

18 november 2023 | 9 min

Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

11 november 2023 | 10 min

Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?

4 november 2023 | 9 min

The Overlooked Mathematicians of History

28 oktober 2023 | 9 min

What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

21 oktober 2023 | 9 min

Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

14 oktober 2023 | 13 min

Are half the words in English from French?

7 oktober 2023 | 10 min

Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times

4 oktober 2023 | 28 min

Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

30 september 2023 | 9 min

NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

27 september 2023 | 30 min

Which city has the longest canals?

23 september 2023 | 10 min

Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

20 september 2023 | 28 min

How to approach the world through numbers

16 september 2023 | 9 min

Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter

13 september 2023 | 29 min

Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

11 september 2023 | 14 min

Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty

6 september 2023 | 29 min

What percentage of our brain do we actually use?

2 september 2023 | 9 min

HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors

30 augusti 2023 | 29 min

How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?

26 augusti 2023 | 10 min

How many butterflies are there in the world?

19 augusti 2023 | 9 min

Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?

12 augusti 2023 | 10 min

Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

5 augusti 2023 | 9 min

Data, extreme weather and climate change

29 juli 2023 | 9 min

Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

22 juli 2023 | 10 min

Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

15 juli 2023 | 9 min

Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

8 juli 2023 | 10 min

Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

5 juli 2023 | 29 min

Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

1 juli 2023 | 10 min

Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

28 juni 2023 | 31 min

US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?

24 juni 2023 | 9 min

Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?

21 juni 2023 | 29 min

Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

17 juni 2023 | 9 min

Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?

14 juni 2023 | 32 min

Counting Hunger in India

10 juni 2023 | 10 min

Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

7 juni 2023 | 29 min

A short history of data

3 juni 2023 | 10 min

Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

31 maj 2023 | 30 min

Are young people more single than ever before?

28 maj 2023 | 9 min

NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce

24 maj 2023 | 29 min

Detecting Bad Science with Data

20 maj 2023 | 10 min

Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

13 maj 2023 | 10 min

Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

6 maj 2023 | 10 min

How much is the Coronation crown worth?

29 april 2023 | 10 min

The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News

22 april 2023 | 10 min

How accurate is baby's due date?

15 april 2023 | 10 min

How to better understand and explain numbers

8 april 2023 | 10 min

A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?

1 april 2023 | 10 min

Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

25 mars 2023 | 10 min

Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

18 mars 2023 | 10 min

Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

11 mars 2023 | 9 min

Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?

4 mars 2023 | 10 min

UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

1 mars 2023 | 29 min

Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

25 februari 2023 | 11 min

Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

22 februari 2023 | 29 min

Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

18 februari 2023 | 11 min

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

15 februari 2023 | 29 min

Spreadsheet disasters

11 februari 2023 | 10 min

The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

8 februari 2023 | 29 min

Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

4 februari 2023 | 10 min

Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

1 februari 2023 | 29 min

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

28 januari 2023 | 10 min

Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

25 januari 2023 | 28 min

Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

21 januari 2023 | 9 min

Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

18 januari 2023 | 29 min

How we shook the world of very large numbers

14 januari 2023 | 9 min

A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

11 januari 2023 | 29 min

Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

7 januari 2023 | 10 min

Irish pubs - a global numbers game

31 december 2022 | 11 min

Numbers of the Year 2022

24 december 2022 | 9 min

Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

17 december 2022 | 9 min

Why are data so important in determining how we live?

10 december 2022 | 9 min

The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

3 december 2022 | 10 min

When do food shortages become a famine?

26 november 2022 | 9 min

A $220 billion World Cup?

19 november 2022 | 9 min

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

14 november 2022 | 15 min

Improving the numbers in the news

12 november 2022 | 9 min

Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

5 november 2022 | 9 min

Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

29 oktober 2022 | 9 min

Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

22 oktober 2022 | 9 min

Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

15 oktober 2022 | 10 min

Catching Chess Cheats with Data

8 oktober 2022 | 9 min

Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

7 oktober 2022 | 28 min

NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

1 oktober 2022 | 10 min

Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

28 september 2022 | 29 min

Ukraine’s progress in numbers

24 september 2022 | 10 min

Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

22 september 2022 | 29 min

How bad is fashion for the environment?

17 september 2022 | 9 min

Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

14 september 2022 | 29 min

Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

10 september 2022 | 9 min

Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

7 september 2022 | 29 min

Can we use maths to beat the robots?

3 september 2022 | 9 min

Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

31 augusti 2022 | 29 min

Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

27 augusti 2022 | 9 min

The numbers behind “natural” birth control

20 augusti 2022 | 10 min

Is opinion polling broken?

13 augusti 2022 | 9 min

Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

6 augusti 2022 | 9 min

How our world measures up

30 juli 2022 | 9 min

Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

23 juli 2022 | 10 min

Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

16 juli 2022 | 10 min

Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

9 juli 2022 | 10 min

How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

2 juli 2022 | 10 min

Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

29 juni 2022 | 29 min

Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

25 juni 2022 | 11 min

Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

22 juni 2022 | 29 min

How often do people have sex?

18 juni 2022 | 9 min

Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

15 juni 2022 | 29 min

Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

11 juni 2022 | 10 min

Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

8 juni 2022 | 29 min

Are girls starting puberty earlier?

4 juni 2022 | 9 min

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

1 juni 2022 | 29 min

Noisy Decisions

28 maj 2022 | 9 min

Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

25 maj 2022 | 29 min

Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

21 maj 2022 | 9 min

Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

14 maj 2022 | 9 min

Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

7 maj 2022 | 9 min

Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

30 april 2022 | 9 min

Understanding India through Data

23 april 2022 | 9 min

Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

15 april 2022 | 9 min

Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

9 april 2022 | 9 min

Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

2 april 2022 | 9 min

Pizza and Nuclear War

20 mars 2022 | 9 min

Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

13 mars 2022 | 12 min

Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

6 mars 2022 | 9 min

Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

2 mars 2022 | 29 min

Did lockdowns save any lives?

27 februari 2022 | 9 min

Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

23 februari 2022 | 28 min

Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

20 februari 2022 | 9 min

Questioning claims about Covid and children

16 februari 2022 | 29 min

Testosterone and sport

13 februari 2022 | 9 min

The prime minister in statistical bother

9 februari 2022 | 29 min

Can you fool your brain?

6 februari 2022 | 9 min

Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

2 februari 2022 | 29 min

Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

30 januari 2022 | 9 min

Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

26 januari 2022 | 28 min

Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

23 januari 2022 | 11 min

Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

19 januari 2022 | 29 min

QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

16 januari 2022 | 9 min

Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

12 januari 2022 | 28 min

How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

9 januari 2022 | 9 min

Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

2 januari 2022 | 9 min

Numbers of 2021

26 december 2021 | 9 min

The psychological economics of gift giving

19 december 2021 | 9 min

Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

12 december 2021 | 9 min

Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

5 december 2021 | 9 min

Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

28 november 2021 | 9 min

A TikTok tale

21 november 2021 | 9 min

The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

14 november 2021 | 9 min

Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

7 november 2021 | 9 min

The art of counting

31 oktober 2021 | 9 min

The numbers behind Squid Game

24 oktober 2021 | 9 min

The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

17 oktober 2021 | 9 min

Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

7 oktober 2021 | 36 min

Twenty years of More or Less

6 oktober 2021 | 28 min

The Gender Pay Gap

3 oktober 2021 | 9 min

Is it easy being green?

29 september 2021 | 29 min

Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut

22 september 2021 | 28 min

How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

19 september 2021 | 9 min

Death, Tax and Dishwashers

15 september 2021 | 28 min

Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

8 september 2021 | 28 min

The Bill for Afghanistan

4 september 2021 | 9 min

Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

1 september 2021 | 29 min

Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

28 augusti 2021 | 9 min

The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

21 augusti 2021 | 9 min

How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

16 augusti 2021 | 9 min

Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

7 augusti 2021 | 9 min

Breaking Climate Records

31 juli 2021 | 9 min

The Rise of Delta

24 juli 2021 | 9 min

The Freedom Day Gamble

19 juli 2021 | 29 min

Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

10 juli 2021 | 9 min

Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?

3 juli 2021 | 9 min

Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

30 juni 2021 | 29 min

Maths and the Mayflower

26 juni 2021 | 9 min

Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim

23 juni 2021 | 29 min

The origins of Covid

19 juni 2021 | 9 min

Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes

16 juni 2021 | 29 min

The doubling of life-expectancy

12 juni 2021 | 9 min

Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes

9 juni 2021 | 29 min

Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer

2 juni 2021 | 29 min

The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim

29 maj 2021 | 9 min

Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents

26 maj 2021 | 29 min

The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

22 maj 2021 | 9 min

Explaining maths without Numbers

15 maj 2021 | 9 min

Finding Mexico City’s real death toll

8 maj 2021 | 9 min

Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

2 maj 2021 | 9 min

Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

24 april 2021 | 9 min

How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?

17 april 2021 | 9 min

Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine

10 april 2021 | 9 min

Too fast for Minecraft?

4 april 2021 | 9 min

In praise of Covid Data

27 mars 2021 | 9 min

Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

20 mars 2021 | 9 min

The truth about obesity and Covid 19

13 mars 2021 | 9 min

Sainthood and Cup draws

6 mars 2021 | 9 min

Why are US Covid cases falling?

27 februari 2021 | 9 min

Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?

20 februari 2021 | 9 min

Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid

17 februari 2021 | 29 min

How much Covid in the World?

13 februari 2021 | 9 min

Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

10 februari 2021 | 29 min

Glasgow vs Rwanda

6 februari 2021 | 9 min

Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

3 februari 2021 | 29 min

The Rapid Test Row

30 januari 2021 | 9 min

Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

27 januari 2021 | 28 min

Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

27 januari 2021 | 28 min

Counting Covid’s impact on GDP

23 januari 2021 | 9 min

Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

20 januari 2021 | 28 min

How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

14 januari 2021 | 29 min

Ants and Algorithms

9 januari 2021 | 9 min

Numbers of the year: Part two

8 januari 2021 | 9 min

Numbers of the year: Part one

8 januari 2021 | 9 min

The economics of a Covid Christmas

19 december 2020 | 9 min

QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

12 december 2020 | 9 min

Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?

5 december 2020 | 9 min

Tracking Covid 19

28 november 2020 | 10 min

Inviting Covid for Dinner

21 november 2020 | 9 min

Vaccine numbers

14 november 2020 | 9 min

How deadly is Covid 19?

7 november 2020 | 9 min

Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

31 oktober 2020 | 9 min

US election: facts or fiction

24 oktober 2020 | 9 min

Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

17 oktober 2020 | 9 min

A short history of probability

10 oktober 2020 | 9 min

Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability

7 oktober 2020 | 21 min

“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones

30 september 2020 | 29 min

Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head

23 september 2020 | 29 min

The magical maths of pool testing

19 september 2020 | 9 min

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

16 september 2020 | 28 min

Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish

9 september 2020 | 28 min

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

2 september 2020 | 28 min

Covid plasma therapy

26 augusti 2020 | 28 min

A-level algorithms, poker and buses

19 augusti 2020 | 28 min

Belarus’ contested election

15 augusti 2020 | 9 min

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

12 augusti 2020 | 28 min

Melting Antarctic ice

8 augusti 2020 | 9 min

Covid in Africa

1 augusti 2020 | 10 min

Data in the time of cholera

25 juli 2020 | 9 min

Covid misconceptions and US deaths

18 juli 2020 | 9 min

Sweden’s lockdown lite

11 juli 2020 | 15 min

Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback

4 juli 2020 | 9 min

Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

1 juli 2020 | 28 min

A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

27 juni 2020 | 9 min

Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

24 juni 2020 | 28 min

Who Should be Quarantined?

20 juni 2020 | 9 min

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

17 juni 2020 | 29 min

Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

10 juni 2020 | 28 min

Keep your distance

6 juni 2020 | 9 min

False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

3 juni 2020 | 28 min

Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

27 maj 2020 | 28 min

60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

23 maj 2020 | 9 min

School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots

20 maj 2020 | 28 min

Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

16 maj 2020 | 9 min

Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

13 maj 2020 | 28 min

Covid-19 fatality rate

9 maj 2020 | 9 min

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

6 maj 2020 | 28 min

Climate change and birdsong

2 maj 2020 | 9 min

Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

29 april 2020 | 28 min

Comparing countries' coronavirus performance

25 april 2020 | 9 min

Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

23 april 2020 | 14 min

Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

22 april 2020 | 28 min

Superforecasting the Coronavirus

18 april 2020 | 9 min

Should you wear a face mask?

11 april 2020 | 9 min

Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

8 april 2020 | 28 min

Are more men dying from coronavirus?

4 april 2020 | 9 min

Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

31 mars 2020 | 28 min

The Risk

28 mars 2020 | 9 min

Coronavirus Special

25 mars 2020 | 28 min

Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?

21 mars 2020 | 9 min

The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers

14 mars 2020 | 14 min

How much heat do you lose from your head?

9 mars 2020 | 9 min

Netflix vs the environment

29 februari 2020 | 9 min

More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures

28 februari 2020 | 26 min

Artificial (not so) Intelligence

22 februari 2020 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

15 februari 2020 | 9 min

Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes

14 februari 2020 | 23 min

WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

8 februari 2020 | 10 min

Tracking terror suspects

7 februari 2020 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Coronavirus

1 februari 2020 | 9 min

Coronavirus, emotions and guns.

31 januari 2020 | 29 min

WS More or Less: Dozy Science

25 januari 2020 | 9 min

Netflix and Chill

24 januari 2020 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate

18 januari 2020 | 9 min

Weighing the Cost of Brexit

17 januari 2020 | 16 min

WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

11 januari 2020 | 9 min

Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

10 januari 2020 | 35 min

C-sections and sharks

4 januari 2020 | 9 min

Presidential candidates and dementia

28 december 2019 | 9 min

The Simpsons and maths

20 december 2019 | 9 min

Koalas

13 december 2019 | 9 min

Election Special (2/2)

10 december 2019 | 28 min

Tree Planting Pledges

6 december 2019 | 9 min

Election Special 1/2

3 december 2019 | 28 min

Testing tomatoes

29 november 2019 | 9 min

The world’s busiest shipping lanes

23 november 2019 | 9 min

Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?

15 november 2019 | 12 min

Reducing your risk of death

9 november 2019 | 9 min

Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data

1 november 2019 | 9 min

Edith Abbott and crime statistics

28 oktober 2019 | 9 min

Esther Duflo and women in economics

18 oktober 2019 | 20 min

The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.

11 oktober 2019 | 29 min

WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

7 oktober 2019 | 9 min

New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches

4 oktober 2019 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?

30 september 2019 | 9 min

Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

27 september 2019 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?

23 september 2019 | 9 min

Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

20 september 2019 | 25 min

WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

16 september 2019 | 9 min

Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

13 september 2019 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

9 september 2019 | 9 min

Climate deaths, austerity and pet food

6 september 2019 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

2 september 2019 | 9 min

Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

30 augusti 2019 | 27 min

WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day

26 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

23 augusti 2019 | 25 min

Mice and mind blowing maths

16 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

9 augusti 2019 | 9 min

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

2 augusti 2019 | 9 min

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

26 juli 2019 | 9 min

Missing women from drug trials

19 juli 2019 | 9 min

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

19 juli 2019 | 9 min

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

5 juli 2019 | 9 min

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

28 juni 2019 | 10 min

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

21 juni 2019 | 15 min

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

14 juni 2019 | 9 min

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

10 juni 2019 | 9 min

Are married women flipping miserable?

7 juni 2019 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

3 juni 2019 | 9 min

Hay Festival Special

31 maj 2019 | 28 min

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

27 maj 2019 | 11 min

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

24 maj 2019 | 24 min

Making music out of Money

20 maj 2019 | 9 min

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

17 maj 2019 | 28 min

Sex Every Seven Seconds

13 maj 2019 | 15 min

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

10 maj 2019 | 28 min

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

6 maj 2019 | 10 min

Nurses, flatmates and cats

3 maj 2019 | 24 min

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

29 april 2019 | 10 min

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

26 april 2019 | 28 min

The economic impact of mega sporting events

19 april 2019 | 9 min

Where is Scotland’s highest village?

15 april 2019 | 9 min

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

8 april 2019 | 9 min

Chess cheats and the GOAT

2 april 2019 | 10 min

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

25 mars 2019 | 9 min

Day light saving time and heart attacks

18 mars 2019 | 9 min

The gender gap in tech

9 mars 2019 | 9 min

Insectageddon

4 mars 2019 | 12 min

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

22 februari 2019 | 9 min

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

18 februari 2019 | 9 min

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

15 februari 2019 | 23 min

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

12 februari 2019 | 19 min

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

8 februari 2019 | 28 min

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

4 februari 2019 | 9 min

Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

1 februari 2019 | 29 min

WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

26 januari 2019 | 9 min

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

25 januari 2019 | 23 min

WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

19 januari 2019 | 9 min

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

18 januari 2019 | 30 min

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

12 januari 2019 | 11 min

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

11 januari 2019 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

4 januari 2019 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

29 december 2018 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

22 december 2018 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

17 december 2018 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

30 november 2018 | 9 min

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

23 november 2018 | 16 min

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

16 november 2018 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

9 november 2018 | 9 min

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

28 oktober 2018 | 11 min

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

19 oktober 2018 | 9 min

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

12 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

9 oktober 2018 | 10 min

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

7 oktober 2018 | 9 min

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

5 oktober 2018 | 21 min

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

1 oktober 2018 | 9 min

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

28 september 2018 | 23 min

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

24 september 2018 | 9 min

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

21 september 2018 | 25 min

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

17 september 2018 | 9 min

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

14 september 2018 | 25 min

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

10 september 2018 | 9 min

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

7 september 2018 | 24 min

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

3 september 2018 | 9 min

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

31 augusti 2018 | 24 min

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

29 augusti 2018 | 28 min

WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

27 augusti 2018 | 9 min

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

24 augusti 2018 | 25 min

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

22 augusti 2018 | 28 min

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

20 augusti 2018 | 9 min

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

15 augusti 2018 | 28 min

Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

10 augusti 2018 | 9 min

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

8 augusti 2018 | 29 min

Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

3 augusti 2018 | 9 min

Getting Creative with Statistics

27 juli 2018 | 9 min

Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

23 juli 2018 | 10 min

How to Cycle Really Fast

20 juli 2018 | 9 min

Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

6 juli 2018 | 9 min

Running at the World Cup

29 juni 2018 | 10 min

How many words do you need to speak a language?

22 juni 2018 | 9 min

FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

15 juni 2018 | 9 min

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

10 juni 2018 | 15 min

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

8 juni 2018 | 24 min

Counting Rough Sleepers

4 juni 2018 | 12 min

The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry

1 juni 2018 | 21 min

WS More or Less: Australia Calling

28 maj 2018 | 11 min

Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials

25 maj 2018 | 24 min

WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

21 maj 2018 | 9 min

Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

18 maj 2018 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology

14 maj 2018 | 11 min

Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths

11 maj 2018 | 23 min

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

7 maj 2018 | 10 min

Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

4 maj 2018 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics

29 april 2018 | 11 min

Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

27 april 2018 | 24 min

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

20 april 2018 | 9 min

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

13 april 2018 | 10 min

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

8 april 2018 | 9 min

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

29 mars 2018 | 9 min

Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?

23 mars 2018 | 10 min

Factchecking Trump on Trade

16 mars 2018 | 10 min

WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister

9 mars 2018 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

5 mars 2018 | 13 min

WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

25 februari 2018 | 11 min

WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard

18 februari 2018 | 10 min

UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy

16 februari 2018 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

11 februari 2018 | 7 min

The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II

9 februari 2018 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

5 februari 2018 | 13 min

Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker

2 februari 2018 | 31 min

Is the US Census Under Threat?

29 januari 2018 | 9 min

A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers

26 januari 2018 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers

22 januari 2018 | 9 min

Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

19 januari 2018 | 28 min

WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

15 januari 2018 | 9 min

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

12 januari 2018 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?

7 januari 2018 | 9 min

More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

31 december 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

24 december 2017 | 10 min

WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

18 december 2017 | 10 min

WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

11 december 2017 | 10 min

WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

4 december 2017 | 10 min

WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?

26 november 2017 | 9 min

How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

17 november 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer

12 november 2017 | 13 min

WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

5 november 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

30 oktober 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

20 oktober 2017 | 9 min

How Richard Thaler changed Economics

13 oktober 2017 | 22 min

WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

10 oktober 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

2 oktober 2017 | 9 min

Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

29 september 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?

25 september 2017 | 9 min

Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

22 september 2017 | 25 min

WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

15 september 2017 | 10 min

Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

15 september 2017 | 25 min

WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?

11 september 2017 | 9 min

Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

8 september 2017 | 26 min

One in 500 Year Storm

4 september 2017 | 7 min

Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

1 september 2017 | 28 min

Fantasy Football - How to win

28 augusti 2017 | 11 min

A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

25 augusti 2017 | 28 min

The Trump Bump

20 augusti 2017 | 10 min

Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

14 augusti 2017 | 9 min

Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?

7 augusti 2017 | 9 min

More boys than girls in Sweden?

31 juli 2017 | 9 min

Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths

24 juli 2017 | 9 min

Calling the shots at Wimbledon

17 juli 2017 | 9 min

Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?

10 juli 2017 | 9 min

In Search of Woodall Primes

30 juni 2017 | 20 min

How rare are deadly tower block fires?

26 juni 2017 | 9 min

Trumpton Extra

21 juni 2017 | 17 min

Post-Election Special

19 juni 2017 | 30 min

WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

12 juni 2017 | 9 min

UK Election extra

7 juni 2017 | 15 min

WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV

5 juni 2017 | 9 min

Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

2 juni 2017 | 29 min

WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

28 maj 2017 | 9 min

Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks

26 maj 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees

22 maj 2017 | 9 min

Tax, speed dating and sea ice

19 maj 2017 | 24 min

Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

13 maj 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

12 maj 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: An urban maze

8 maj 2017 | 10 min

Is Crime Rising?

5 maj 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

1 maj 2017 | 9 min

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

28 april 2017 | 28 min

WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?

21 april 2017 | 9 min

Living standards and Kate Bush maths

21 april 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

14 april 2017 | 9 min

Economics of Overbooking

14 april 2017 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

10 april 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?

31 mars 2017 | 9 min

WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?

24 mars 2017 | 9 min

More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China

17 mars 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

10 mars 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?

3 mars 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?

24 februari 2017 | 9 min

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

17 februari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

13 februari 2017 | 26 min

WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

3 februari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

27 januari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream

20 januari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

13 januari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?

6 januari 2017 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

3 januari 2017 | 9 min

The Haber-Bosch Process

28 december 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Life, death and data

26 december 2016 | 9 min

Christmas Quiz

23 december 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas

16 december 2016 | 9 min

Have more famous people died this year?

16 december 2016 | 23 min

WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?

12 december 2016 | 9 min

How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?

9 december 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

2 december 2016 | 9 min

Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

2 december 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

28 november 2016 | 10 min

Pensioners aren't poor anymore

25 november 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

21 november 2016 | 9 min

Is dementia the number one killer?

18 november 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked

14 november 2016 | 10 min

US election, stray cats and puzzles

11 november 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

7 november 2016 | 9 min

Trump tells the Truth

4 november 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

28 oktober 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

24 oktober 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

14 oktober 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

7 oktober 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?

30 september 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

23 september 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

18 september 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

12 september 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

5 september 2016 | 9 min

Irish Passports

2 september 2016 | 28 min

Death Penalty abolition

30 augusti 2016 | 9 min

Gender Pay Gap

26 augusti 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

22 augusti 2016 | 9 min

Counting Terror Deaths

19 augusti 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

15 augusti 2016 | 9 min

Grammar Schools

12 augusti 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

8 augusti 2016 | 9 min

Plastic Bags

5 augusti 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

1 augusti 2016 | 10 min

The Supermarket Effect

29 juli 2016 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures

22 juli 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US

15 juli 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

8 juli 2016 | 9 min

Ranking Iceland’s Football Team

1 juli 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

24 juni 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

20 juni 2016 | 9 min

The Referendum by Numbers: Trade

17 juni 2016 | 12 min

The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

16 juni 2016 | 12 min

The Referendum by Numbers: Law

15 juni 2016 | 12 min

The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

14 juni 2016 | 12 min

The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

13 juni 2016 | 11 min

WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

10 juni 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

3 juni 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

27 maj 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product

20 maj 2016 | 9 min

WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city

13 maj 2016 | 10 min

WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

9 maj 2016 | 9 min

The most profitable product in history

6 maj 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

2 maj 2016 | 9 min

EU Migration

29 april 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

25 april 2016 | 9 min

Brexit numbers

22 april 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

18 april 2016 | 9 min

Celebrity deaths

15 april 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: The story of average

11 april 2016 | 9 min

Fathers and babies

8 april 2016 | 28 min

WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

5 april 2016 | 9 min

The Great EU Cabbage Myth

4 april 2016 | 28 min

WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking

24 mars 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

18 mars 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?

11 mars 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

4 mars 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

26 februari 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive

19 februari 2016 | 9 min

WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?

15 februari 2016 | 9 min

Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

12 februari 2016 | 28 min

WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?

8 februari 2016 | 10 min

E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

5 februari 2016 | 28 min

Swedish refugees

1 februari 2016 | 9 min

How harmful is alcohol?

29 januari 2016 | 28 min

WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

25 januari 2016 | 10 min

Billionaires versus the world

22 januari 2016 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

18 januari 2016 | 10 min

Weekend Stroke Deaths

15 januari 2016 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

11 januari 2016 | 10 min

Flood Defence Spending

8 januari 2016 | 24 min

WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

4 januari 2016 | 10 min

Numbers of the Year 2015

1 januari 2016 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

25 december 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

18 december 2015 | 13 min

WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

11 december 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

8 december 2015 | 9 min

WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

27 november 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

20 november 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

13 november 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

6 november 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

30 oktober 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Oil

23 oktober 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

16 oktober 2015 | 9 min

WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

9 oktober 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

2 oktober 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

28 september 2015 | 10 min

Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

25 september 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

21 september 2015 | 10 min

Striking Numbers

18 september 2015 | 29 min

WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

14 september 2015 | 10 min

Is it worth targetting non-voters?

11 september 2015 | 28 min

Queuing Backwards

7 september 2015 | 9 min

Fit for work or at deaths door?

4 september 2015 | 27 min

WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

31 augusti 2015 | 10 min

China Stock Market Crash

28 augusti 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

24 augusti 2015 | 10 min

Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

21 augusti 2015 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Worm wars

17 augusti 2015 | 10 min

Migrant Crisis

14 augusti 2015 | 24 min

WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?

7 augusti 2015 | 10 min

WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters

31 juli 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy

24 juli 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

17 juli 2015 | 10 min

Greece Special

10 juli 2015 | 30 min

Biggest Movies

26 juni 2015 | 9 min

WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

19 juni 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

13 juni 2015 | 10 min

Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

12 juni 2015 | 24 min

WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths

6 juni 2015 | 10 min

World Cup Migrant Deaths

5 juni 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: John Nash

30 maj 2015 | 10 min

Seven-day NHS

29 maj 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

23 maj 2015 | 10 min

Female Drink Drivers

22 maj 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers

16 maj 2015 | 10 min

Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

15 maj 2015 | 24 min

WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte

11 maj 2015 | 10 min

Election and Adultery Special

8 maj 2015 | 23 min

UK election podcast 4

6 maj 2015 | 17 min

WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise

2 maj 2015 | 10 min

Polls, nuns and life partners

1 maj 2015 | 24 min

WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa

25 april 2015 | 10 min

UK Election Podcast 3

24 april 2015 | 17 min

WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.

18 april 2015 | 10 min

UK election podcast 2

17 april 2015 | 28 min

UK election podcast 1

13 april 2015 | 33 min

WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test

11 april 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess

3 april 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?

28 mars 2015 | 10 min

Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

21 mars 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health

14 mars 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: The future of food

7 mars 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

28 februari 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

21 februari 2015 | 10 min

The mathematical secrets to relationships

14 februari 2015 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

9 februari 2015 | 10 min

Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

6 februari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating

2 februari 2015 | 10 min

Cameron’s 1000 jobs

30 januari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

26 januari 2015 | 10 min

Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?

23 januari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?

19 januari 2015 | 10 min

How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

16 januari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer

12 januari 2015 | 10 min

A&E waiting times

9 januari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.

4 januari 2015 | 10 min

Numbers of the Year 2014.

2 januari 2015 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.

27 december 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.

20 december 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths

13 december 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy

6 december 2014 | 10 min

Teenage Pregnancy

29 november 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

22 november 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide

15 november 2014 | 10 min

Tracking and Tackling Ebola

8 november 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation

1 november 2014 | 10 min

Screening for Ebola

25 oktober 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Big Data

18 oktober 2014 | 10 min

Species in Decline?

11 oktober 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?

6 oktober 2014 | 9 min

WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?

29 september 2014 | 10 min

The Barnett Formula

26 september 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi

22 september 2014 | 10 min

Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

19 september 2014 | 28 min

Shakespeare vs Rappers

15 september 2014 | 10 min

Scottish referendum polls

12 september 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?

8 september 2014 | 10 min

To ice or not to ice?

5 september 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?

1 september 2014 | 10 min

How Deadly Is Ebola?

29 augusti 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

25 augusti 2014 | 10 min

Troubled families?

22 augusti 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism

18 augusti 2014 | 10 min

Student Loans

15 augusti 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

10 augusti 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

2 augusti 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?

26 juli 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France

19 juli 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

12 juli 2014 | 10 min

Will we die before our parents?

5 juli 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?

28 juni 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?

21 juni 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

16 juni 2014 | 10 min

Faith and Charity?

13 juni 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'

9 juni 2014 | 10 min

What's Scottish Independence Worth?

6 juni 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair

2 juni 2014 | 10 min

The Piketty Affair

30 maj 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy

26 maj 2014 | 10 min

Romanian Crime

23 maj 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

19 maj 2014 | 10 min

Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats

16 maj 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar

12 maj 2014 | 10 min

Food Bank Britain

9 maj 2014 | 28 min

Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat

5 maj 2014 | 10 min

British Law - Made in Brussels?

2 maj 2014 | 28 min

Killed for being female?

26 april 2014 | 10 min

Magic Numbers

19 april 2014 | 10 min

Nigeria - rich or poor?

12 april 2014 | 10 min

Freedom in Numbers

5 april 2014 | 10 min

Is London France’s sixth largest city?

29 mars 2014 | 10 min

Missing planes

22 mars 2014 | 10 min

Mailbox edition

15 mars 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery

8 mars 2014 | 10 min

The 10,000 hours rule

1 mars 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak

22 februari 2014 | 10 min

Love by numbers

15 februari 2014 | 10 min

Rising drug overdose deaths

10 februari 2014 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Immigration

3 februari 2014 | 10 min

The 50p tax rate

31 januari 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk

27 januari 2014 | 10 min

Immigration

24 januari 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day

20 januari 2014 | 10 min

Obesity crisis?

17 januari 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq

13 januari 2014 | 10 min

The week that kills

10 januari 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2

4 januari 2014 | 10 min

Pension Charges

3 januari 2014 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1

28 december 2013 | 10 min

Numbers of the year

27 december 2013 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?

21 december 2013 | 10 min

Britain's 80,000 homeless children

20 december 2013 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?

14 december 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test

7 december 2013 | 10 min

Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

30 november 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?

23 november 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?

16 november 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?

9 november 2013 | 10 min

100,000 Christian martyrs?

2 november 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?

26 oktober 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle

19 oktober 2013 | 10 min

The Hawthorne Effect

12 oktober 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants

7 oktober 2013 | 10 min

Underage drinking

4 oktober 2013 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?

30 september 2013 | 10 min

NHS hospital deaths

27 september 2013 | 28 min

Formula 1 racing risk

23 september 2013 | 10 min

Do free school meals work?

20 september 2013 | 28 min

Sexual violence statistics in Asia

16 september 2013 | 10 min

Fertility: when is too late?

13 september 2013 | 28 min

The death toll in Syria

9 september 2013 | 10 min

The Death Toll in Syria

6 september 2013 | 28 min

Counting climate migrants

31 augusti 2013 | 10 min

What price the life of a badger?

30 augusti 2013 | 28 min

Is coffee bad for you?

24 augusti 2013 | 10 min

The magic of maths

17 augusti 2013 | 10 min

Where could we fit the entire world’s population?

10 augusti 2013 | 10 min

What is the most visited country in the world?

3 augusti 2013 | 10 min

Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

27 juli 2013 | 10 min

Egypt: Biggest protest in history?

13 juli 2013 | 9 min

Sex and the world wide web

6 juli 2013 | 10 min

How long will you live?

29 juni 2013 | 10 min

Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?

22 juni 2013 | 10 min

Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?

15 juni 2013 | 10 min

Sex on the Brain?

10 juni 2013 | 9 min

A&E, and the chances of having twins

7 juni 2013 | 28 min

The maths of spies and terrorists

3 juni 2013 | 10 min

The maths of spies and terrorists

31 maj 2013 | 24 min

Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers

27 maj 2013 | 9 min

The economics of Scottish independence

24 maj 2013 | 24 min

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

20 maj 2013 | 10 min

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

17 maj 2013 | 24 min

How old is your dog?

13 maj 2013 | 10 min

How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years

10 maj 2013 | 28 min

The Maths of Mozart and Birds

6 maj 2013 | 9 min

Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

3 maj 2013 | 28 min

Are Man Utd a one-man team?

27 april 2013 | 10 min

Austerity: a spreadsheet error?

22 april 2013 | 10 min

Thatcher in numbers

15 april 2013 | 10 min

Communicating Risk

8 april 2013 | 10 min

That's not much gold

30 mars 2013 | 10 min

Can big data save lives?

25 mars 2013 | 10 min

Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

18 mars 2013 | 10 min

HIV in numbers

11 mars 2013 | 10 min

Is the Kenyan election already decided?

4 mars 2013 | 9 min

Counting Catholics

25 februari 2013 | 9 min

How many people support Manchester United?

18 februari 2013 | 10 min

The end of the Penny

11 februari 2013 | 10 min

A case of statistical significance in Greece

4 februari 2013 | 10 min

Fat or Fiction

28 januari 2013 | 10 min

WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides

21 januari 2013 | 9 min

Pop up economics

16 januari 2013 | 14 min

Food waste and Scrabble

14 januari 2013 | 10 min

The Parable of the Ox

7 januari 2013 | 9 min

The Parable of the Ox

4 januari 2013 | 28 min

Numbers of 2012

31 december 2012 | 9 min

Numbers of 2012

28 december 2012 | 27 min

Gun Statistics

24 december 2012 | 10 min

Fact-checking US gun crime statistics

21 december 2012 | 28 min

WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?

17 december 2012 | 10 min

The Census and what does 'rare' mean?

14 december 2012 | 28 min

World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins

10 december 2012 | 10 min

Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement

7 december 2012 | 28 min

More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?

3 december 2012 | 10 min

More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego

30 november 2012 | 24 min

Fergie Time

26 november 2012 | 10 min

Ash Die Back and Fergie Time

23 november 2012 | 28 min

Brain Food and Bacteria

19 november 2012 | 10 min

Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election

12 november 2012 | 10 min

Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?

5 november 2012 | 9 min

Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?

29 oktober 2012 | 10 min

Life-saving economics

22 oktober 2012 | 9 min

Predicting the global population

15 oktober 2012 | 9 min

Predicting the Presidency

8 oktober 2012 | 10 min

Plenty more fish in the sea?

1 oktober 2012 | 10 min

Factchecking America

24 september 2012 | 10 min

Investigating crime statistics

17 september 2012 | 10 min

Where are the Paralympics Medals?

10 september 2012 | 10 min

How to explain infinity to a 4-year-old

3 september 2012 | 10 min

Are African leaders more likely to die in office?

27 augusti 2012 | 10 min

Levelling the statistical playing field

20 augusti 2012 | 10 min

The great playing field sell off?

17 augusti 2012 | 28 min

How to lose money - fast!

13 augusti 2012 | 10 min

How to lose money - fast!

10 augusti 2012 | 28 min

How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? WS

4 augusti 2012 | 10 min

How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?

3 augusti 2012 | 28 min

Gun laws and gold medals (WS)

28 juli 2012 | 10 min

Gun laws and gold medals

27 juli 2012 | 28 min

Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower? (WS)

21 juli 2012 | 10 min

Has clamping down on drugs made the Tour de France slower?

20 juli 2012 | 28 min

Who are the Libor losers?

14 juli 2012 | 28 min

More or Less: Who are the Libor losers? (WS)

14 juli 2012 | 10 min

Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS)

6 juli 2012 | 9 min

Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)

29 juni 2012 | 10 min

(WS) Weight of the world

23 juni 2012 | 10 min

(WS) Chance encounters

18 juni 2012 | 10 min

Interview with Daniel Kahneman

11 juni 2012 | 10 min

Counting images of The Queen. (WS)

4 juni 2012 | 10 min

Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)

28 maj 2012 | 24 min

The maths of infidelity (WS)

25 maj 2012 | 10 min

Where are the world hardest workers? (WS)

21 maj 2012 | 9 min

Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4)

17 maj 2012 | 28 min

Trouble on the Greek railways (WS)

14 maj 2012 | 10 min

Are CEOs worth it? (R4)

11 maj 2012 | 28 min

A grand economic experiment? (WS)

4 maj 2012 | 10 min

Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4)

4 maj 2012 | 28 min

The formula that changed the world

27 april 2012 | 10 min

The formula that changed the world

27 april 2012 | 28 min

20 Apr 12

20 april 2012 | 10 min

20 Apr 12

20 april 2012 | 28 min

Eurostats - True or False?

13 april 2012 | 9 min

Stamp prices and the first maths book

6 april 2012 | 10 min

Do big football clubs win more penalties?

30 mars 2012 | 10 min

What is the world average salary?

23 mars 2012 | 10 min

Red meat death risk?

16 mars 2012 | 10 min

Is Apple worth more than Poland?

9 mars 2012 | 10 min

Less than a dollar a day

2 mars 2012 | 10 min

Syria poll and Europe’s work hours

24 februari 2012 | 10 min

Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day

17 februari 2012 | 10 min

Measuring famine

10 februari 2012 | 10 min

More alive than dead?

3 februari 2012 | 9 min

Sizing up cities

27 januari 2012 | 10 min

Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations

20 januari 2012 | 10 min

Chavez's cancer claims

14 januari 2012 | 9 min

High speed rail

13 januari 2012 | 28 min

Using statistics in court

6 januari 2012 | 28 min

2011 in numbers

30 december 2011 | 28 min

Who are the 1% and the 99%?

23 december 2011 | 30 min

Higgs boson statistics

16 december 2011 | 29 min

Supermarket price wars

9 december 2011 | 29 min

Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.

2 december 2011 | 29 min

Brain Culture Part 3

29 november 2011 | 29 min

Brain Culture Part 2

22 november 2011 | 28 min

Brain Culture Part 1

15 november 2011 | 28 min

Government waste

9 september 2011 | 28 min

A Euro Debt Odyssey

2 september 2011 | 28 min

Scottish Independence

26 augusti 2011 | 28 min

Is salt bad for you?

19 augusti 2011 | 28 min

The maths of rioting

12 augusti 2011 | 28 min

US debt

5 augusti 2011 | 28 min

Public Sector Pay

13 maj 2011 | 28 min

Climate Refugees

7 maj 2011 | 28 min

Wedding Stats

29 april 2011 | 28 min

How useful is GDP?

22 april 2011 | 28 min

Tuition fees

15 april 2011 | 28 min

Youth Unemployment

8 april 2011 | 28 min

Small spending cuts?

1 april 2011 | 28 min

The Story of Economics 'Monsters'

30 mars 2011 | 28 min

The Story of Economics 'Cogs'

23 mars 2011 | 28 min

The Story of Economics 'Gods'

16 mars 2011 | 28 min

Health check

21 januari 2011 | 28 min

Street grooming

14 januari 2011 | 28 min

Big numbers

7 januari 2011 | 28 min

2010 in numbers

31 december 2010 | 28 min

What the Dickens?

24 december 2010 | 28 min

Council of despair

17 december 2010 | 29 min

Degrees of Debt

10 december 2010 | 28 min

Gay Britain

1 oktober 2010 | 28 min

How welfare works

24 september 2010 | 28 min

Who earns more?

17 september 2010 | 28 min

Back to school

10 september 2010 | 28 min

03 Sep 2010

3 september 2010 | 28 min

20 Apr 12

Senaste avsnitt

Why it matters that Trump fired data chief

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?

Are one in six children living through war?

Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

How to spot a suspicious statistic

Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

Is the world’s population being miscounted?

Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims

Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

How dead is the internet?

Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets

Bonus episode: The Autism Curve

Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?

The pioneers of proof

How much is a human life worth?

The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula

Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?

Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?

What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?

Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

How did lockdown impact children?

What is an IQ map and can we trust them?

DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?

Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?

Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?

Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?

Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

Numbers of the year part 2

Numbers of the year 2024

Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?

Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?

Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

What can economics learn from sport?

Are older drivers more dangerous?

Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

Should the government target persnuffle?

Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

How do you count millionaires?

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Who pays when trade wars heat up?

Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

Where have Cuba’s people gone?

Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

Are companies making more money from their customers?

Is planet Earth getting greener?

Does a language die every two weeks?

Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?