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    WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

    How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

  2. WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

    Statistician Hans Rosling鈥檚 family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions

  3. WS More or Less: Ethiopia鈥檚 350m trees in a day

    Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?

  4. WS More or Less: Escobar鈥檚 Cocaine Deaths

    How many people die for every kilo of cocaine?

  5. WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

    How many people have died during President Duterte鈥檚 drug crackdown?

  6. WS More or Less: Dozy Science

    How much sleep do we really need?

  7. WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  8. WS More or Less: Does Sweden really have a six hour day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  9. WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

    Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?

  10. WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

    Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?

  11. WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

    Finding out if Nigerian politicians really get paid more than the American President.

  12. WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

    How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?

  13. WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?

    What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?

  14. WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

    Could the US President鈥檚 Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires

  15. WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

    Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?

  16. WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

    How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

  17. WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

    Are mega-dams really sustainable?

  18. WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

    Has 2016 been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe?

  19. WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

    How many went to celebrate 鈥� and how many to protest 鈥� the Trump inauguration?

  20. WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

    Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.

  21. WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

    An update on Covid-19 statistics, with Tim Harford.

  22. WS More or Less: Coronavirus

    Fact checking claims about the spread of Coronavirus

  23. WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

    Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?

  24. WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

    Is a girl under 15 married every seven seconds? And beware dangerous algorithms

  25. WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

    Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?

  26. WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

    Have a billion animals died in Australia鈥檚 fires? And which ones are likely to survive?

  27. WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

    What will happen to trade and business in the UK after leaving the EU?

  28. WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

    Do the largest ships emit as much pollution as all the cars in the world?

  29. WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes 鈥� are they really saving infant鈥檚 lives?

    They鈥檝e become a bit of a phenomenon but what鈥檚 the evidence that they work?

  30. WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

    We鈥檙e getting better at spotting Earth-bound space rocks 鈥� but how safe are we?

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