More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Timing a Tsunami
How fast do Tsunamis travel?
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Vaccines: The Importance of The Herd and Social Media
What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?
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Foreign Aid: Who鈥檚 The Most Generous?
In foreign aid terms what鈥檚 the best way of measuring how generous a country is?
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Paul Romer and William Nordhaus鈥� Big Ideas
The economists tackling climate change and growth
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Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?
Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Adshade about same-sex divorce statistics.
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Loneliness, School funding, Same-sex divorce
Tim Harford on a 91福利社 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners.
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Surviving the Battle of Britain
Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?
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Surviving the Battle of Britain, The World Cup and domestic violence, Buckfast and arrests in Scotland
Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.
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Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?
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How many schoolchildren are carers? Counting shareholder income, Museum visitors vs football fans
Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football, museums and dangerous sports.
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DNA: Are you more Chimp or Neanderthal?
Is our DNA more chimp or Neanderthal?
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Male suicide, School ratings, Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?
Tim Harford on what statistics tell us about suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis.
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The safest car in the world?
A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road
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Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; The size of the services sector; The 'safest car on the road'; Counting goats.
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
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How well do you understand your world?
Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts
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African trade tariffs, Alcohol safe limits, President Trump's popularity
Tim Harford fact-checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many.
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Automated Fact-checking
Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.
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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking, Lord of the Rings maths
Tim Harford on no-frills living, automated fact-checking and Lord of the Rings maths.
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Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?
Are Wildfires in the United States and Southern Europe burning more land than before?
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Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
How do you get a hashtag to trend around the world?
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Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?
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Getting Creative with Statistics
How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
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How to Cycle Really Fast
How much better are the pros than the rest of us and how effective is slipstreaming?
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Should We Have Smaller Families To Save The Planet?
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
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Are There More Stars Than Grains of Beach Sand?
Stars vs Sand. We work out who wins the ultimate cosmic battle.
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Running at the World Cup
Is it strange that Russian football players have run such big distances?
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How Many Words Do You Need to Speak a Language?
How many words do you need to speak a language and how many do native speakers use?
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FIFA World Cup Extravaganza
How the 鈥榖eautiful game鈥� has changed鈥hrough numbers.
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How Many Animals are Born Every Day?
From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?
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How to Reduce Exam Revision with Maths, Infant Mortality, London's Murder Rate
Tim Harford explains how maths can help lazy students reduce their revision workload.
