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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
MoreOrLess: UK Election Podcast 3 24 Apr 15
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Sweden’s polarising pandemic response
MoreOrLess: UK election podcast 2 17 Apr 15
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Pizza and Nuclear War
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
MoreOrLess: UK election podcast 1
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes
How many holes are there in a drinking straw?
Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
MoreOrLess: Election and Adultery Special 08 May 15
Numbers of 2021
Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?
Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine
Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
The numbers behind “natural” birth control
Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
The prime minister in statistical bother
Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages
Did lockdowns save any lives?
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
How often do people have sex?
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
A TikTok tale
Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?
WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa 24 Apr 15
Questioning claims about Covid and children
Greece Special
Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?
The magical maths of pool testing
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
Twenty years of More or Less
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?
Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading
WS MoreOrLess: The future of food 07 Mar 15
WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying? 28 Mar 15
WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test 10 Apr 15
WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess 04 Apr 15
WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US 28 Feb 15
The art of counting
Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets
Understanding India through Data
Is it easy being green?
Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?
Numbers of the Year 2022
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy
MoreOrLess: Polls, nuns and life partners 01 May 15
MoreOrLess: A&E waiting times 09 Jan 15
WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte 08 May 15
Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks
Is opinion polling broken?
How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?
Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
The Gender Pay Gap
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
The psychological economics of gift giving
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Vaccine numbers
The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage
Reason, numbers and Mr Spock
WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health 14 Mar 15
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1. 20 Dec 14
MoreOrLess: UK election podcast 4 06 May 15
WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant. 17 Apr 15
WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths 12 Dec 14
WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth 21 Feb 15
Too fast for Minecraft?
A short history of probability
Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?
The numbers behind Squid Game
Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents
A $220 billion World Cup?
Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Noisy Decisions
Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?
Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Belarus’ contested election
Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?
Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing
The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26
Tracking Covid 19
Biggest Movies
Is it worth targetting non-voters?
WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy 05 Dec 14
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
How bad is fashion for the environment?
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Inviting Covid for Dinner
Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?
When do food shortages become a famine?
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
The Freedom Day Gamble
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
WS MoreOrLess: Millennium Development Goals
Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?
Ants and Algorithms
Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less
The Rise of Delta
Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
Covid plasma therapy
Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?
Are girls starting puberty earlier?
Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?
Explaining maths without Numbers
Numbers of the year: Part one
MoreOrLess: How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts? 16 Jan 14
MoreOrLess: Is Breast Best for Brains? 21 Mar 15
MoreOrLess: Cameron’s 1000 jobs 30 Jan 15
WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2. 27 Dec 14
WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy
WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters
Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?
Debt, students, shark and chips
Can you fool your brain?
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
How effective is one dose of the vaccine?
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
The extraordinary life of Robert Moses
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?
Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
The truth about obesity and Covid 19
Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
The Bill for Afghanistan
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong
Fit for work or at deaths door?
MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you? 06 Feb 15
Numbers of the year: Part two
QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked
Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate
China Stock Market Crash
MoreOrLess: The mathematical secrets to relationships 14 Feb 15
MoreOrLess: Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK? 23 Jan 15
WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?
“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Improving the numbers in the news
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
China’s missing numbers
Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world
Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?
A short history of data
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?
Striking Numbers
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
MoreOrLess: Teenage Pregnancy 28 Nov 14
Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
How deadly is Covid 19?
Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
Detecting Bad Science with Data
How to better understand and explain numbers
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
Glasgow vs Rwanda
MoreOrLess: Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15
Are half the words in English from French?
Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid
How accurate is baby's due date?
Maths and the Mayflower
The Rapid Test Row
How our world measures up
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
MoreOrLess: Female Drink Drivers 22 May 15
The economics of a Covid Christmas
E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?
Numbers of the Year 2015
WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness
WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
Flood Defence Spending
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Numbers of the year 2023
Breaking Climate Records
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Spreadsheet disasters
Sweden’s lockdown lite
World Cup Migrant Deaths 05 Jun 15
Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim
How many butterflies are there in the world?
Are young people more single than ever before?
Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
Testosterone and sport
Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
How to approach the world through numbers
Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?
The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim
Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases
Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
The origins of Covid
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
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