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    WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

    What to look out for on Christmas Eve.

  2. WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

    Do women鈥檚 periods start to synchronise if they spend time together?

  3. WS More or Less: Liberia鈥檚 Rape Statistic Debunked

    Is the claim that three out of four women were raped during Liberia's civil war true?

  4. WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

    The statistics behind the English Premier League鈥檚 surprise winners

  5. WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

    Naming the monster numbers - how the names of digital storage files evolved.

  6. WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?

    Why it isn鈥檛 as simple to work out as you think.

  7. WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

    Are some people just very lucky? The maths suggest that is unlikely.

  8. WS More or Less: Japan鈥檚 99% Conviction Rate

    Quantifying justice in Japan with Tim Harford.

  9. WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

    Does being very tall improve your chances of becoming a professional basketball player?

  10. WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

    Tim Harford asks which times of the year are riskiest for suicide.

  11. WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

  12. WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

    Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity

  13. WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

    We investigate whether the Chinese government can really achieve its extraordinary pledge

  14. WS More or Less: Ireland鈥檚 Shock GDP figures

    Does Ireland have the fastest growing economy in the world?

  15. WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

    Does the world really spend three times as much on ice cream than on humanitarian aid?

  16. WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

    What鈥檚 the best way to measure a hurricane?

  17. WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?

    Tim Harford talks to economist Dan Ariely about the psychology of money.

  18. WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen鈥檚 Mr Darcy?

    What the Pride and Prejudice character would have earned in today鈥檚 money.

  19. WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

    From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?

  20. WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

    A forgotten French mathematician鈥檚 unusual approach to the stock market.

  21. WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

    Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators鈥� gaits.

  22. WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

    We investigate the murder rate in popular crime series Miss Fisher鈥檚 Murder Mysteries.

  23. WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

    Are 74% of African girls aged 15-24 HIV positive?

  24. WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

    Education is failing our kids, claim experts. We go sleuthing around the world.

  25. WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

    Alcohol consumption has fallen sharply according to Russia鈥檚 health ministry

  26. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  27. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  28. WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

    Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal鈥搃s this good news? Plus an asteroid update.

  29. WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

    Assessing the accuracy of a Groundhog; How many English people have right royal relatives?

  30. WS More or Less: 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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