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    WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

    Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

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

    Tim Harford investigates the numbers surrounding police shootings in the USA.

  3. WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees

    Has Uganda accepted more refugees, daily than some European countries in an entire year?

  4. WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology

    What is the truth behind the 17th Century Dutch craze for Tulips?

  5. WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

    Are some US inner cities more dangerous than Afghanistan?

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

    How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?

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

    Is it true that London is the most diverse city in the world?

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

    Is the iPhone the most profitable product in history? What are the other contenders?

  9. WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

    Which is the most successful country? Plus the chances of a dead heat.

  10. WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

    The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.

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

    Is there a better way of looking at the Sustainable Development Goals?

  12. WS More or Less: The story of average

    How astronomers introduced the world to the average.

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

    A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?

  14. WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

    How to use mathematics to find your partner. And, how reliable are pregnancy due dates?

  15. WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

    We look at the numbers behind body temperature – what is normal?

  16. WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

    Statistics show that the Head of the Catholic Church can expect to live to an old age

  17. WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

    How much do you know about the world?

  18. WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

    Does the European Union dedicate 26,911 words to cabbage regulation?

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

    Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?

  20. WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

    Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?

  21. WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

    Why are swimming world records frequently being broken?

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

    How much of a problem is falling sperm count?

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

    Could having a lie-in lead to an early death?

  24. WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister

    Did Sir Roger Bannister make the ‘impossible’ possible?

  25. WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

    We explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.

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

    How much water do we need and how much is too much?

  27. WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

    Are we collecting enough data about women?

  28. WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

    Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?

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

    Can medical statistics be transformed into a jazzy night out?

  30. WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

    Is it true that the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years?

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