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The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers
Does Iran have a lot more covid-19 cases that its figures suggest?
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
How much heat do you lose from your head?
Every winter its the same, someone will tell you to put a hat on to save your body from losing all of its heat. But how much heat do you actually lose from your head? We take you on a journey from ar…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Netflix vs the environment
Does watching 30 minutes of Netflix have the same carbon footprint as driving four miles?
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures
Dipping into the archive for stories on the art of prediction and wood burner pollution
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Artificial (not so) Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence – or AI for short – is often depicted in films in the shape of helpful droids, all-knowing computers or even malevolent ‘death bots’. In real life, we’re making leaps and boun…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers
A lot has changed since our last episode covering the numbers behind the coronavirus - for a start it now has a name, Covid-19. This week news has broken that deaths are 20 per cent higher than thoug…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, and James Wong on vegetables
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?
We all know that you should never smile at a crocodile, but rumour has it that alligators are great perambulators – at least that’s what a booklet about Florida’s wildlife claimed. Tim Harford speaks…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Tracking terror suspects
Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
WS More or Less: Coronavirus
The WHO have declared a ‘Global Health Emergency’ as health officials are urgently trying to contain the spread of a new coronavirus in China and beyond; but not all the information you read is corre…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago