More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Migrant Crisis
A 'swarm' of migrants heading for Europe? Are the numbers really up?
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Wrestlers: Dying Too Young?
Are WWE stars more likely to die sooner than their non-wrestling peers?
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Counting Foreign Fighters
How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?
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Life Expectancy
How long might you live?
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Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?
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Greece Special
Tim Harford looks at the numbers to tell the story of the Greek crisis.
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Greece Special
Tim Harford looks at the numbers to tell the story of the Greek crisis.
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More or Less: The Greek Odyssey
Tim Harford explains the Greek economic crisis with a little help from 91福利社r鈥檚 Odyssey
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Millennium Development Goals
Have the eight goals for addressing extreme poverty set by the UN made a difference?
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Biggest Movies
Jurassic World took $511m in its first weekend. Why have recent films done so well?
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Horoscope Health
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you will develop?
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Global Footprint
Do we need one and a half planets worth of resources?
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Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
Tim Harford looks at how recent obesity projections were calculated.
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Qatar Migrant Worker Deaths
Is the World Cup really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar?
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World Cup Migrant Deaths
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
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John Nash
The life and achievements of the mathematician John Nash
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Seven-day NHS
Tim Harford asks if people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die.
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Death Row
Is it true that for every nine people executed in the US, there is one person exonerated?
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Women Drink Driving
Tim Harford asks whether there really is a problem with women drink driving.
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Big Numbers
How a simple computer bug has led to explosions, missing planes and more
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Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers
Are strokes among working-age people on the rise? Presented by Tim Harford.
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Princess Charlotte
Assessing the economic benefit of a new princess.
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Election and Adultery Special
Tim Harford and a panel of experts discuss how pre-election polls tallied with the results
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Nuns on the Rise
Are more women getting in the habit?
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Polls, Nuns, Life Partners
Is the number of Catholic nuns on the up? And Tim Harford explores polling data.
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Xenophobia in South Africa
Are international migrants stealing jobs?
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A Liver Transplant
A question from a listener about a living transplant
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The Ignorance Test
Can you pass world health expert Hans Rosling鈥檚 Ignorance Test?
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Maths and Chess
Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked?
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How Safe is Flying?
Following the Germanwings A320 tragedy, are plane crashes becoming more common?