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Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets
Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2
Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1
The numbers that made 2018.
Published on 7 years ago
WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa
What to look out for on Christmas Eve.
Published on 7 years ago
WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics
Are mega-dams really sustainable?
Published on 7 years ago
WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks
Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?
Xavier Zapata examines what the data tells us about the deadly impact of war on civilians
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
Updating the kilogram.
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?
How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media
What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago