More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Has the number of periods a woman has in her lifetime quadrupled?
A claim about how many periods a woman has and a suspicious stat on single-use face masks
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How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws
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Is immunity from vaccines waning?
How worried should we be about declining antibodies? Plus life-threatening hotdogs.
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The bill for Afghanistan
Did the war in Afghanistan cost the US $2 trillion?
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Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?
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The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
The life of mathematics educator and civil rights organiser, Dr Robert Moses
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How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
What can the data tell us about the quality of the Covid hit games?
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Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
Why increasing Covid infections amongst the vaccinated isn鈥檛 necessarily bad news.
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Breaking climate records
The odds and probability behind record-breaking temperatures
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The Rise of Delta
Where鈥檚 this new Variant spreading and what can be done to stop it?
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Long Covid and Vaccinating Children
The world watches as the UK lifts its remaining Covid restrictions
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Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Recent reports have claimed that Nigeria has 40 million Twitter users 鈥� but is this true?
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Is Ivermectin a Covid 鈥榳onder drug鈥�?
What do we know about the efficacy of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19?
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Maths and the Mayflower
Are there really 35 million descendants of the Mayflower alive today?
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The origins of Covid
How similar are the Covid strains?
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The doubling of life-expectancy
The story of how data helped extend our lives
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Wales Vaccine Success
How to distribute jabs efficiently; plus adding 28 to 47
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The Seaspiracy 鈥渧irtually empty ocean鈥� claim
Why it鈥檚 unlikely our oceans will be virtually empty by 2048.
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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
The Recovery Trial identified drugs that helped save lives.
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Explaining maths without Numbers
Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman.
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Finding Mexico City鈥檚 real death toll
How two data detectives revealed the pandemic鈥檚 impact.
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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
How an obscure theory came into fashion.
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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?
We ask if this year鈥檚 global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.
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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need
Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
AstraZeneca鈥檚 clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.
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Too fast for Minecraft?
Gamers raise suspicions over speed run times - are they right?
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In praise of Covid Data
How we came to expect dashboards full of statistics.
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid-19
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The truth about obesity and Covid-19
Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?
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Sainthood and Cup draws
Your chances of becoming a saint, plus football odds.
