More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Is planet Earth getting greener?
Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens
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Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
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Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.
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Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
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The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�
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How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
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Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.
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Shakespeare鈥檚 maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing
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Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
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Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death
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Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
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Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures
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Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence
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Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
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Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
The connection between being alone and an early death
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
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What鈥檚 happening to Arctic ice?
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
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Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine
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Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.
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Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
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NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?
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The digital 鈥榬obots鈥� unlocking medical data
Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data
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The global gender split in young people鈥檚 politics
Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
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Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe
