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Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?

2

Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?

3

Does a full moon make crime rates go up?

4

Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’

5

The messy history behind the modern calendar

6

Benefits vs minimum wage: Which pays more?

7

Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?

8

Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?

9

Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?

10

Education, Education, Education (and immigration)

11

Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France

12

Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes

13

The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

14

Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?

15

Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?

16

Are refugees more likely to commit crime?

17

Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?

18

Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking

19

Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?

20

Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?

21

Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?

22

Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep

23

How likely is ‘likely’?

24

How much water does AI consume?

25

Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000

26

Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?

27

US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?

28

Has a company really discovered a million new species?

29

Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?

30

Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?

31

Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?

32

Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?

33

Can you get £71,000 on benefits?

34

Is Greenland as big as Africa?

35

How close is Greenland to the United States?

36

No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer

37

Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?

38

Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?

39

The Stats of the Nation: Immigration, benefits and inequality

40

The Stats of the Nation: Older people, education, prisons and the weather

41

The Stats of the Nation: Sex, drugs and empty homes

42

The Stats of the Nation: Health

43

The Stats of the Nation: The Economy

44

Numbers of the year 2026

45

Numbers of the year 2025

46

Numbers of the year 2025

47

Were there really Three Wise Men?

48

The shocking world of US health costs

49

Do we really have ‘superflu’?

50

RCP 8.5: Why did the climate change model get it wrong?

51

Is RFK right about US sperm counts?

52

Richard Thaler and The Winner’s Curse

53

Is there a stock market crash coming?

54

Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?

55

Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?

56

Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?

57

Is your housework split sexist?

58

Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?

59

Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?

60

Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?

61

Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?

62

Is the world getting less miserable?

63

Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?

64

The Case of the Missing US Data

65

Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?

66

Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?

67

Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?

68

Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?

69

Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?

70

Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?

71

Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

72

Do women feel the cold more than men?

73

How weird was the Med Sea heatwave?

74

Why it matters that Trump fired data chief

75

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

76

Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?

77

Are one in six children living through war?

78

Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

79

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

80

The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

81

Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

82

Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

83

Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

84

How to spot a suspicious statistic

85

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

86

Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

87

How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

88

Is the world’s population being miscounted?

89

Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

90

Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims

91

Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

92

How dead is the internet?

93

Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets

94

Bonus episode: The Autism Curve

95

Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

96

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

97

The pioneers of proof

98

How much is a human life worth?

99

The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula

100

Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

101

Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

102

What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?

103

Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?

104

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

105

Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

106

How did lockdown impact children?

107

What is an IQ map and can we trust them?

108

DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

109

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

110

Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

111

Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?

112

Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

113

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

114

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

115

Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

116

Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

117

Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

118

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

119

Numbers of the year part 2

120

Numbers of the year 2024

121

Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

122

How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?

123

Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

124

Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

125

Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

126

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

127

Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

128

What can economics learn from sport?

129

Are older drivers more dangerous?

130

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

131

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

132

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

133

When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

134

Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

135

Should the government target persnuffle?

136

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

137

How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

138

The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

139

Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

140

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

141

How do you count millionaires?

142

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

143

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

144

Who pays when trade wars heat up?

145

Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

146

Where have Cuba’s people gone?

147

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

148

Are companies making more money from their customers?

149

Is planet Earth getting greener?

150

Does a language die every two weeks?

151

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

152

Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

153

Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

154

The magic of trigonometry

155

Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

156

How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

157

Election claims and erection claims

158

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

159

Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

160

Shakespeare’s maths

161

Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

162

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

163

Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

164

Data for India

165

UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

166

Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

167

MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

172

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

173

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

174

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

175

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

176

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

177

What's happening to Arctic ice?

178

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

179

Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

180

Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

181

School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

182

NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

183

Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

184

The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

185

Debt, students, shark and chips

186

The global gender split in young people’s politics

187

Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

188

A pocket-size history of the calculator

189

Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

190

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

191

Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

192

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

193

Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

194

Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

195

Deaths, taxes and missing cats

196

How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?

197

Numbers of the year 2023

198

Can chocolate be better than salad?

199

China’s missing numbers

200

Does endurance sport harm your heart?

201

Will there be a billion climate refugees?

202

A boy meets girl meets stats story

203

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

204

Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

205

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

206

The Overlooked Mathematicians of History

207

What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

208

Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

209

Are half the words in English from French?

210

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

211

Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

212

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

213

Which city has the longest canals?

214

Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

215

How to approach the world through numbers

216

Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter

217

Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

218

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

219

What percentage of our brain do we actually use?

220

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

221

How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?

222

How many butterflies are there in the world?

223

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

224

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

225

Data, extreme weather and climate change

226

Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

227

Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

228

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

229

Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

230

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

231

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

232

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

233

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

234

Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

235

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

236

Counting Hunger in India

237

Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

238

A short history of data

239

Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

240

Are young people more single than ever before?

241

NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce

242

Detecting Bad Science with Data

243

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

244

Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

245

How much is the Coronation crown worth?

246

The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News

247

How accurate is baby's due date?

248

How to better understand and explain numbers

249

A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?

250

Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

251

Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

252

Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

253

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

254

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

255

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

256

Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

257

Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

258

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

259

Spreadsheet disasters

260

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

261

Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

262

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

263

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

264

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

265

Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

266

Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

267

How we shook the world of very large numbers

268

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

269

Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

270

Irish pubs - a global numbers game

271

Numbers of the Year 2022

272

Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

273

Why are data so important in determining how we live?

274

The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

275

When do food shortages become a famine?

276

A $220 billion World Cup?

277

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

278

Improving the numbers in the news

279

Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

280

Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

281

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

282

Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

283

Catching Chess Cheats with Data

284

Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

285

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

286

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

287

Ukraine’s progress in numbers

288

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

289

How bad is fashion for the environment?

290

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

291

Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

292

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

293

Can we use maths to beat the robots?

294

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

295

Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

296

The numbers behind “natural” birth control

297

Is opinion polling broken?

298

Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

299

How our world measures up

300

Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

301

Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

302

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

303

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

304

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

305

Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

306

Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

307

How often do people have sex?

308

Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

309

Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

310

Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

311

Are girls starting puberty earlier?

312

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

313

Noisy Decisions

314

Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

315

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

316

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

317

Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

318

Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

319

Understanding India through Data

320

Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

321

Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

322

Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

323

Pizza and Nuclear War

324

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

325

Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

326

Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

327

Did lockdowns save any lives?

328

Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

329

Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

330

Questioning claims about Covid and children

331

Testosterone and sport

332

The prime minister in statistical bother

333

Can you fool your brain?

334

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

335

Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

336

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

337

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

338

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

339

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

340

Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

341

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

342

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

343

Numbers of 2021

344

The psychological economics of gift giving

345

Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

346

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

347

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

348

A TikTok tale

349

The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

350

Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

351

The art of counting

352

The numbers behind Squid Game

353

The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

354

Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

355

Twenty years of More or Less

356

The Gender Pay Gap

357

Is it easy being green?

358

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

359

How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

360

Death, Tax and Dishwashers

361

Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

362

The Bill for Afghanistan

363

Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

364

Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

365

The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

366

How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

367

Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

368

Breaking Climate Records

369

The Rise of Delta

370

The Freedom Day Gamble

371

Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

372

Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?

373

Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

374

Maths and the Mayflower

375

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

376

The origins of Covid

377

Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes

378

The doubling of life-expectancy

379

Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes

380

Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer

381

The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim

382

Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents

383

The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

384

Explaining maths without Numbers

385

Finding Mexico City’s real death toll

386

Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

387

Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

388

How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?

389

Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine

390

Too fast for Minecraft?

391

In praise of Covid Data

392

Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

393

The truth about obesity and Covid 19

394

Sainthood and Cup draws

395

Why are US Covid cases falling?

396

Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?

397

Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid

398

How much Covid in the World?

399

Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

400

Glasgow vs Rwanda

401

Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

402

The Rapid Test Row

403

Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

404

Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

405

Counting Covid’s impact on GDP

406

Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

407

How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

408

Ants and Algorithms

409

Numbers of the year: Part two

410

Numbers of the year: Part one

411

The economics of a Covid Christmas

412

QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

413

Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?

414

Tracking Covid 19

415

Inviting Covid for Dinner

416

Vaccine numbers

417

How deadly is Covid 19?

418

Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

419

US election: facts or fiction

420

Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

421

A short history of probability

422

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

423

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

424

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

425

The magical maths of pool testing

426

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

427

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

428

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

429

Covid plasma therapy

430

A-level algorithms, poker and buses

431

Belarus’ contested election

432

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

433

Melting Antarctic ice

434

Covid in Africa

435

Data in the time of cholera

436

Covid misconceptions and US deaths

437

Sweden’s lockdown lite

438

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

439

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

440

A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

441

Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

442

Who Should be Quarantined?

443

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

444

Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

445

Keep your distance

446

False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

447

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

448

60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

449

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

450

Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

451

Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

452

Covid-19 fatality rate

453

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

454

Climate change and birdsong

455

Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

456

Comparing countries' coronavirus performance

457

Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

458

Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

459

Superforecasting the Coronavirus

460

Should you wear a face mask?

461

Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

462

Are more men dying from coronavirus?

463

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

464

The Risk

465

Coronavirus Special

466

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

467

The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers

468

How much heat do you lose from your head?

469

Netflix vs the environment

470

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

471

Artificial (not so) Intelligence

472

WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

473

Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes

474

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

475

Tracking terror suspects

476

WS More or Less: Coronavirus

477

Coronavirus, emotions and guns.

478

WS More or Less: Dozy Science

479

Netflix and Chill

480

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

481

Weighing the Cost of Brexit

482

WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

483

Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

484

C-sections and sharks

485

Presidential candidates and dementia

486

The Simpsons and maths

487

Koalas

488

Election Special (2/2)

489

Tree Planting Pledges

490

Election Special 1/2

491

Testing tomatoes

492

The world’s busiest shipping lanes

493

Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?

494

Reducing your risk of death

495

Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data

496

Edith Abbott and crime statistics

497

Esther Duflo and women in economics

498

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

499

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

500

New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches

501

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

502

Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

503

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

504

Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

505

WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

506

Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

507

WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

508

Climate deaths, austerity and pet food

509

WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

510

Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

511

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

512

Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

513

Mice and mind blowing maths

514

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

515

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

516

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

517

Missing women from drug trials

518

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

519

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

520

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

521

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

522

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

523

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

524

Are married women flipping miserable?

525

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

526

Hay Festival Special

527

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

528

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

529

Making music out of Money

530

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

531

Sex Every Seven Seconds

532

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

533

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

534

Nurses, flatmates and cats

535

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

536

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

537

The economic impact of mega sporting events

538

Where is Scotland’s highest village?

539

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

540

Chess cheats and the GOAT

541

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

542

Day light saving time and heart attacks

543

The gender gap in tech

544

Insectageddon

545

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

546

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

547

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

548

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

549

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

550

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

551

Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

552

WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

553

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

554

WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

555

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

556

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

557

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

558

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

559

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

560

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

561

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

562

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

563

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

564

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

565

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

566

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

567

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

568

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

569

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

570

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

571

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

572

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

573

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

574

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

575

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

576

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

577

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

578

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

579

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

580

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

581

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

582

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

583

WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

584

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

585

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

586

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

587

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

588

Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

589

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

590

Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

591

Getting Creative with Statistics

592

Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

593

How to Cycle Really Fast

594

Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

595

Running at the World Cup

596

How many words do you need to speak a language?

597

FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

598

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

599

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

600

Counting Rough Sleepers

601

The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry

602

WS More or Less: Australia Calling

603

Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials

604

WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

605

Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

606

WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology

607

Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths

608

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

609

Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

610

WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics

611

Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

612

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

613

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

614

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

615

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

616

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

617

Factchecking Trump on Trade

618

WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister

619

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

620

WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

621

WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard

622

UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy

623

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

624

The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II

625

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

626

Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker

627

Is the US Census Under Threat?

628

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

629

WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers

630

Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

631

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

632

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

633

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

634

More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

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

639

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

640

How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

641

WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer

642

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

643

WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

644

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

645

How Richard Thaler changed Economics

646

WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

647

WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

648

Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

649

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

650

Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

651

WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

652

Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

653

WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?

654

Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

655

One in 500 Year Storm

656

Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

657

Fantasy Football - How to win

658

A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

659

The Trump Bump

660

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

661

Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?

662

More boys than girls in Sweden?

663

Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths

664

Calling the shots at Wimbledon

665

Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?

666

In Search of Woodall Primes

667

How rare are deadly tower block fires?

668

Trumpton Extra

669

Post-Election Special

670

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

671

UK Election extra

672

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

673

Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

674

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

675

Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks

676

WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees

677

Tax, speed dating and sea ice

678

Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

679

WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

680

WS More or Less: An urban maze

681

Is Crime Rising?

682

WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

683

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

684

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

685

Living standards and Kate Bush maths

686

WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

687

Economics of Overbooking

688

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

689

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

690

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

691

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

692

WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

693

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

694

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

695

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

696

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

697

WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

698

WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

699

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

700

WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

701

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

702

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

703

The Haber-Bosch Process

704

WS More or Less: Life, death and data

705

Christmas Quiz

706

WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas

707

Have more famous people died this year?

708

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

709

How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?

710

WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

711

Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

712

WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

713

Pensioners aren't poor anymore

714

WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

715

Is dementia the number one killer?

716

WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked

717

US election, stray cats and puzzles

718

WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

719

Trump tells the Truth

720

WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

721

WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

722

WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

723

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

724

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

725

WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

726

WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

727

WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

728

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

729

Irish Passports

730

Death Penalty abolition

731

Gender Pay Gap

732

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

733

Counting Terror Deaths

734

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

735

Grammar Schools

736

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

737

Plastic Bags

738

WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

739

The Supermarket Effect

740

WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures

741

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

742

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

743

Ranking Iceland’s Football Team

744

WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

745

WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

746

The Referendum by Numbers: Trade

747

The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

748

The Referendum by Numbers: Law

749

The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

750

The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

751

WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

752

WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

753

WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

754

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

755

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

756

WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

757

The most profitable product in history

758

WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

759

EU Migration

760

WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

761

Brexit numbers

762

WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

763

Celebrity deaths

764

WS More or Less: The story of average

765

Fathers and babies

766

WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

767

The Great EU Cabbage Myth

768

WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking

769

WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

770

WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?

771

WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

772

WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

773

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

774

WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?

775

Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

776

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

777

E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

778

Swedish refugees

779

How harmful is alcohol?

780

WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

781

Billionaires versus the world

782

WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

783

Weekend Stroke Deaths

784

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

785

Flood Defence Spending

786

WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

787

Numbers of the Year 2015

788

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

789

WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

790

WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

791

WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

792

WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

793

WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

794

WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

795

WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

796

WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

797

WS MoreOrLess: Oil

798

WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

799

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

800

WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

801

WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

802

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

803

WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

804

Striking Numbers

805

WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

806

Is it worth targetting non-voters?

807

Queuing Backwards

808

Fit for work or at deaths door?

809

WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

810

China Stock Market Crash

811

WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

812

Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

813

WS More or Less: Worm wars

814

Migrant Crisis

815

WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?

816

WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters

817

WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy

818

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

819

Greece Special

820

Biggest Movies

821

WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

822

WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

823

Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

824

WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths

825

World Cup Migrant Deaths

826

WS MoreOrLess: John Nash

827

Seven-day NHS

828

WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

829

Female Drink Drivers

830

WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers

831

Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

832

WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte

833

Election and Adultery Special

834

UK election podcast 4

835

WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise

836

Polls, nuns and life partners

837

WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa

838

UK Election Podcast 3

839

WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.

840

UK election podcast 2

841

UK election podcast 1

842

WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test

843

WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess

844

WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?

845

Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

846

WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health

847

WS MoreOrLess: The future of food

848

WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

849

WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

850

The mathematical secrets to relationships

851

WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

852

Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

853

WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating

854

Cameron’s 1000 jobs

855

WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

856

Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?

857

WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?

858

How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

859

WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer

860

A&E waiting times

861

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.

862

Numbers of the Year 2014.

863

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.

864

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.

865

WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths

866

WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy

867

Teenage Pregnancy

868

WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

869

WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide

870

Tracking and Tackling Ebola

871

WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation

872

Screening for Ebola

873

WS MoreOrLess: Big Data

874

Species in Decline?

875

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

876

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

877

The Barnett Formula

878

WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi

879

Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

880

Shakespeare vs Rappers

881

Scottish referendum polls

882

WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?

883

To ice or not to ice?

884

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

885

How Deadly Is Ebola?

886

WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

887

Troubled families?

888

WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism

889

Student Loans

890

WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

891

WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

892

WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?

893

WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France

894

WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

895

Will we die before our parents?

896

WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?

897

WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?

898

WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

899

Faith and Charity?

900

WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'

901

What's Scottish Independence Worth?

902

WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair

903

The Piketty Affair

904

WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy

905

Romanian Crime

906

WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

907

Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats

908

WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar

909

Food Bank Britain

910

Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat

911

British Law - Made in Brussels?

912

Killed for being female?

913

Magic Numbers

914

Nigeria - rich or poor?

915

Freedom in Numbers

916

Is London France’s sixth largest city?

917

Missing planes

918

Mailbox edition

919

WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery

920

The 10,000 hours rule

921

WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak

922

Love by numbers

923

Rising drug overdose deaths

924

WS MoreOrLess: Immigration

925

The 50p tax rate

926

WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk

927

Immigration

928

WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day

929

Obesity crisis?

930

WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq

931

The week that kills

932

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2

933

Pension Charges

934

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1

935

Numbers of the year

936

WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?

937

Britain's 80,000 homeless children

938

WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?

939

WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test

940

Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

941

WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?

942

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

943

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

944

100,000 Christian martyrs?

945

WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?

946

WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle

947

The Hawthorne Effect

948

WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants

949

Underage drinking

950

WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?

951

NHS hospital deaths

952

Formula 1 racing risk

953

Do free school meals work?

954

Sexual violence statistics in Asia

955

Fertility: when is too late?

956

The death toll in Syria

957

The Death Toll in Syria

958

Counting climate migrants

959

What price the life of a badger?

960

Is coffee bad for you?

961

The magic of maths

962

Where could we fit the entire world’s population?

963

What is the most visited country in the world?

964

Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

965

Egypt: Biggest protest in history?

966

Sex and the world wide web

967

How long will you live?

968

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

969

Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?

970

Sex on the Brain?

971

A&E, and the chances of having twins

972

The maths of spies and terrorists

973

The maths of spies and terrorists

974

Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers

975

The economics of Scottish independence

976

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

977

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

978

How old is your dog?

979

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

980

The Maths of Mozart and Birds

981

Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

982

Are Man Utd a one-man team?

983

Austerity: a spreadsheet error?

984

Thatcher in numbers

985

Communicating Risk

986

That's not much gold

987

Can big data save lives?

988

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

989

HIV in numbers

990

Is the Kenyan election already decided?

991

Counting Catholics

992

How many people support Manchester United?

993

The end of the Penny

994

A case of statistical significance in Greece

995

Fat or Fiction

996

WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides

997

Pop up economics

998

Food waste and Scrabble

999

The Parable of the Ox

1000

The Parable of the Ox