All Episodes
More or Less — 1000 episodes
Do Germans really take 19.5 days of sick leave per year?
How much of the world isn’t owned by anyone?
14 million deaths or zero deaths? The impact of the USAID cuts
How much of all the money in the world does Elon Musk have?
Would you take £50,000 or a 50/50 chance of £1m?
The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?
How much luck do you need to win the World Cup?
Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?
Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?
Does a full moon make crime rates go up?
Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’
Benefits vs minimum wage: Which pays more?
Benefits v minimum wage: Which pays more?
Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?
Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?
Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?
Education, Education, Education (and Immigration)
Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France
Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?
Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking
Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?
Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?
Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?
Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep
How likely is ‘likely’?
How much water does AI consume?
Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000
Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?
US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
Has a company really discovered a million new species?
Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
How close is Greenland to the United States?
No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer
Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?
Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?
Immigration, Benefits and Inequality
Older People, Education, Prisons and the Weather
Sex, Drugs and Empty Homes
Health
The Economy
Numbers of the year 2026
Numbers of the Year 2025
Numbers of the year 2025
Were there really Three Wise Men?
The shocking world of US health costs
Do we really have ‘superflu’?
RCP 8.5: Why did the climate change model get it wrong?
Is RFK right about US sperm counts?
Richard Thaler and The Winner’s Curse
Is there a stock market crash coming?
Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?
Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?
Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?
Is your housework split sexist?
Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?
Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?
Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?
Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?
Is the world getting less miserable?
Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?
The case of the missing US data
The Case of the Missing US Data
Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?
Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?
Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?
Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?
Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?
Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?
Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?
Do women feel the cold more than men?
How weird was the Med Sea heatwave?
How weird was the Mediterranean Sea heatwave?
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 abortion numbers rising in the US?
Are abortion numbers rising in the US?
The messy history behind the modern calendar
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
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?
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?
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
The magic of trigonometry
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
Election claims and erection claims
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
Shakespeare’s maths
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Data for India
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
What's happening to Arctic ice?
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Debt, students, shark and chips
The global gender split in young people’s politics
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
A pocket-size history of the calculator
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
Numbers of the year 2023
Can chocolate be better than salad?
China’s missing numbers
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
A boy meets girl meets stats story
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Are half the words in English from French?
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
Which city has the longest canals?
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
How to approach the world through numbers
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
How many butterflies are there in the world?
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
Data, extreme weather and climate change
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
Counting Hunger in India
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
A short history of data
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
Are young people more single than ever before?
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
Detecting Bad Science with Data
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
How accurate is baby's due date?
How to better understand and explain numbers
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Spreadsheet disasters
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
How we shook the world of very large numbers
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Numbers of the Year 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
When do food shortages become a famine?
A $220 billion World Cup?
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Improving the numbers in the news
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Ukraine’s progress in numbers
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
Is a third of Pakistan really under water?
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
Can we use maths to beat the robots?
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Is opinion polling broken?
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
How our world measures up
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
How often do people have sex?
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Noisy Decisions
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
Understanding India through Data
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?
Pizza and Nuclear War
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Did lockdowns save any lives?
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
Questioning claims about Covid and children
Testosterone and sport
The prime minister in statistical bother
Can you fool your brain?
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Numbers of 2021
The psychological economics of gift giving
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
A TikTok tale
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
The art of counting
The numbers behind Squid Game
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
Twenty years of More or Less
The Gender Pay Gap
Is it easy being green?
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
The Bill for Afghanistan
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Breaking Climate Records
The Rise of Delta
The Freedom Day Gamble
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Maths and the Mayflower
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
The origins of Covid
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
The doubling of life-expectancy
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Explaining maths without Numbers
Finding Mexico City’s real death toll
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Too fast for Minecraft?
In praise of Covid Data
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Sainthood and Cup draws
Why are US Covid cases falling?
Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
How much Covid in the World?
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Glasgow vs Rwanda
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
The Rapid Test Row
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Ants and Algorithms
Numbers of the year: Part two
Numbers of the year: Part one
The economics of a Covid Christmas
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Tracking Covid 19
Inviting Covid for Dinner
Vaccine numbers
How deadly is Covid 19?
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
US election: facts or fiction
US election: facts or fiction
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
A short history of probability
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
The magical maths of pool testing
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Covid plasma therapy
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
Belarus’ contested election
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Melting Antarctic ice
Covid in Africa
Data in the time of cholera
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
Sweden’s lockdown lite
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
Who Should be Quarantined?
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
Keep your distance
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
Covid-19 fatality rate
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
Climate change and birdsong
Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown
Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway
Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
Superforecasting the Coronavirus
Should you wear a face mask?
Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
Are more men dying from coronavirus?
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity
The Risk
Coronavirus Special
Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?
The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
How much heat do you lose from your head?
How much heat do you lose from your head?
Netflix vs the environment
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
Tracking terror suspects
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
WS More or Less: Dozy Science
Netflix and Chill
WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate
Weighing the Cost of Brexit
WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery
Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery
C-sections and sharks
Presidential candidates and dementia
The Simpsons and maths
Koalas
Election Special (2/2)
Tree Planting Pledges
Election Special 1/2
Testing tomatoes
The world’s busiest shipping lanes
Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?
Reducing your risk of death
Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data
Edith Abbott and crime statistics
Esther Duflo and women in economics
The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.
WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?
New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches
WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?
Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning
WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?
Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
WS More or Less: Cape Town murders
Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music
WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil
Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires
Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers
WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day
Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees
Mice and mind blowing maths
Immigrant Crime Rate in the US
The spread of fact-checking in Africa
Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence
Missing women from drug trials
Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?
Two World Cups: Football and Cricket
Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?
Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer
WS More or Less: The things we fail to see
Are married women flipping miserable?
WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans
Hay Festival Special
WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf
Making music out of Money
Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps
Sex Every Seven Seconds
Sex, coal, missing people and mice
Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?
Nurses, flatmates and cats
Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby
Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages
The economic impact of mega sporting events
Where is Scotland’s highest village?
Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum
Chess cheats and the GOAT
Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?
Day light saving time and heart attacks
The gender gap in tech
Insectageddon
How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable
WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter
Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol
WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings
Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution
WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!
Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes
WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?
Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall
WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind
Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle
WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever
Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
Numbers of the Year Part One
WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?
WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas
Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce
WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.
WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain
Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland
WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans
WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?
Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?
Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats
WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?
African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys
WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking
A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages
WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Getting Creative with Statistics
Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
How to Cycle Really Fast
Should We Have Smaller Families To Save The Planet?
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Running at the World Cup
How many words do you need to speak a language?
FIFA World Cup Extravaganza
WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate
Counting Rough Sleepers
The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry
WS More or Less: Australia Calling
Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials
WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?
Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology
Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths
WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world
Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms
WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics
Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day
WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?
WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?
WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s
WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?
Factchecking Trump on Trade
WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister
WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test
WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard
UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy
WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?
The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II
WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?
Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker
Is the US Census Under Threat?
A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers
WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers
Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language
WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century
Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes
WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?
More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017
WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?
WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires
Diet Coke Habit
WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?
WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?
WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?
How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?
WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer
WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?
WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers
WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?
How Richard Thaler changed Economics
WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte
WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars
Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence
WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?
Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887
WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane
Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?
WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?
Electric cars, school-ready and feedback
One in 500 Year Storm
Grenfell Tower's Death Toll
Fantasy Football - How to win
A-levels, drowning and dress sizes
The Trump Bump
Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?
Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?
More boys than girls in Sweden?
Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths
Calling the shots at Wimbledon
Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?
In Search of Woodall Primes
How rare are deadly tower block fires?
Trumpton Extra
Post-Election Special
WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?
UK Election extra
WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV
Election Special: Tax, borders and climate
WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?
Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees
Tax, speed dating and sea ice
Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
WS More or Less: An urban maze
Is Crime Rising?
WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
Fact-checking Boris Johnson
WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?
Living standards and Kate Bush maths
WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
Economics of Overbooking
WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?
More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China
WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?
Hidden Figures: The Real Story
WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru
WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?
WS More or Less: Counting Crowds
WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream
WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs
WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?
WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?
The Haber-Bosch Process
WS More or Less: Life, death and data
Christmas Quiz
WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas
Have more famous people died this year?
WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?
How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?
WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion
Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?
WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?
Pensioners aren't poor anymore
WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids
Is dementia the number one killer?
WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked
US election, stray cats and puzzles
WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid
Trump tells the Truth
WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms
WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths
WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment
WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?
WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?
WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims
WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics
WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines
WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing
Irish Passports
Death Penalty abolition
Gender Pay Gap
WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths
Counting Terror Deaths
WS More or Less: Swimming World Records
Grammar Schools
WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals
Plastic Bags
WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms
The Supermarket Effect
WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures
WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US
WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
Ranking Iceland’s Football Team
WS More or Less: Brexit Economics
WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life
The Referendum by Numbers: Trade
The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation
The Referendum by Numbers: Law
The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration
The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership
WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis
WS More or Less: HIV in Africa
WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics
WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product
WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city
WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?
The most profitable product in history
WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox
EU Migration
WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
Brexit numbers
WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope
Celebrity deaths
WS More or Less: The story of average
Fathers and babies
WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth
The Great EU Cabbage Myth
WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking
WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs
WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?
WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short
WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive
WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?
Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?
E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Swedish refugees
How harmful is alcohol?
WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality
Billionaires versus the world
WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves
Weekend Stroke Deaths
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three
Flood Defence Spending
WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2
Numbers of the Year 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1
WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?
WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change
Climate Change
WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis
WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?
WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy
WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer
WS MoreOrLess: Oil
WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché
WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?
Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate
WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?
Striking Numbers
WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
Is it worth targetting non-voters?
Queuing Backwards
Fit for work or at deaths door?
WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash
China Stock Market Crash
WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table
Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
WS More or Less: Worm wars
Migrant Crisis
WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?
WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy
WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
Greece Special
Greece Special
Biggest Movies
WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
World Cup Migrant Deaths
WS MoreOrLess: John Nash
Seven-day NHS
WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty
Female Drink Drivers
WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers
Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte
Election and Adultery Special
UK election podcast 4
WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise
Polls, nuns and life partners
WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
UK Election Podcast 3
WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.
UK election podcast 2
UK election podcast 1
WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test
WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess
WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?
Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health
WS MoreOrLess: The future of food
WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US
WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth
The mathematical secrets to relationships
WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
Is strenuous jogging bad for you?
WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating
Cameron’s 1000 jobs
WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth
Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?
WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?
How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?
WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer
A&E waiting times
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.
Numbers of the Year 2014.
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.
WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths
WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy
Teenage Pregnancy
WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney
WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide
Tracking and Tackling Ebola
WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation
Screening for Ebola
WS MoreOrLess: Big Data
Species in Decline?
WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
The Barnett Formula
WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi
Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match
Shakespeare vs Rappers
Scottish referendum polls
WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?
To ice or not to ice?
WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?
How Deadly Is Ebola?
WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza
Troubled families?
WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism
Student Loans
WS MoreOrLess: Ebola
WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?
WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France
WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket
Will we die before our parents?
WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?
WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?
WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?
Faith and Charity?
WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'
What's Scottish Independence Worth?
WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair
The Piketty Affair
WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy
Romanian Crime
WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?
Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats
WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar
Food Bank Britain
Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat
British Law - Made in Brussels?
Killed for being female?
Magic Numbers
Nigeria - rich or poor?
Freedom in Numbers
Is London France’s sixth largest city?
Missing planes
Mailbox edition
WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery
The 10,000 hours rule
WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak
Love by numbers
Rising drug overdose deaths
WS MoreOrLess: Immigration
The 50p tax rate
WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk
Immigration
WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day
Obesity crisis?
WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq
The week that kills
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2
Pension Charges
WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1
Numbers of the year
WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?
Britain's 80,000 homeless children
WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?
WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test
Football Ranking Mysteries Explained
WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?
WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
100,000 Christian martyrs?
WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?
WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle
The Hawthorne Effect
WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants
Underage drinking
WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?
NHS hospital deaths
Formula 1 racing risk
Do free school meals work?
Sexual violence statistics in Asia
Fertility: when is too late?
The death toll in Syria
The Death Toll in Syria
Counting climate migrants
What price the life of a badger?
Is coffee bad for you?
The magic of maths
Where could we fit the entire world’s population?
What is the most visited country in the world?
Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
Egypt: Biggest protest in history?
Sex and the world wide web