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    WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

    Are Star Wars’ Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth?

  2. WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

    Should population density affect refugee movements? How many bananas are too many?

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

    Two young listeners emailed the programme to ask how we calculate the distance to the sun.

  4. WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

    Can your horoscope predict which diseases you’ll develop?

  5. WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

    Freakonomics guru Steven Levitt joins us to talk about an unusual experiment – to to...

  6. WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

    Has so-called Islamic State been losing territory? Ruth Alexander investigates.

  7. WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

    In search of a previously unobserved part of Einstein’s theory.

  8. WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

    In Roald Dahl’s novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Charlie Bucket wins a to...

  9. WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

    Who is in the world's wealthiest elite, and where do they live? Which are the world's...

  10. WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

    Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources? Tim Harford investigates.

  11. WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?

    It is claimed white South Africans are being systematically killed because of the of...

  12. WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

    Nobel Prize winning economist professor Angus Deaton on a lifetime measuring inequality.

  13. WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

    Is it harder to play football against ten men? Tim Harford finds out.

  14. WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?

    Women in their late thirties shouldn’t be as anxious about their prospects of having...

  15. WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

    After three tragic airline incidents in eight days, is flying becoming more dangerous?...

  16. WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

    What do we know about how deadly the Ebola virus is, and how likely is it that there...

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

    To what degree do our personal opinions cloud our judgement? Yale University have to...

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

    Is it true that humans use just 10% of their brains? It’s the premise of the new...

  19. WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

    Did the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty fall by half a few...

  20. WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

    As the Gaza conflict continues, the fact that there are estimated to be nearly three...

  21. WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

    Death Row exoneration statistics. Recently it’s been claimed that for every nine in...

  22. WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

    Are creative people more likely to be mentally ill, and has Cuba wiped out child hunger?

  23. WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq

    In Iraq, estimates of the death count since the war started 2003 range from 100,000 to...

  24. WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?

    Ruth Alexander speaks to a statistician at the forefront of cancer research, Professor...

  25. WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

    Did climate change contribute to the war in Syria?

  26. WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

    As China ends its one child policy what has been its impact? Ruth Alexander investigates.

  27. WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

    The Chinese stock market may have crashed but was it really ‘Black Monday’?

  28. WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

    England captain Wayne Rooney made his 100th appearance last weekend but former England...

  29. WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar

    The Man Who Counted, a book of 'Arabic' mathematical tales written by Middle Eastern...

  30. WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

    Oscar-winner John Legend said that there are more black men "under correctional in the...

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