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BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
BONUS PODCAST: For the rest of August, in addition to More or Less you’ll get a brand new podcast, Economics with Subtitles. It’s your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this sho…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm
How do you get a hashtag to trend around the world?
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
BONUS PODCAST: For the rest of August, in addition to More or Less, you’ll get four bonus editions of Economics with Subtitles. It’s a brand new podcast that will bring you an everyday guide to econo…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Carbs, Sugar and the Truth
Does a baked potato contain the equivalent of 19 cubes of sugar?
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
Getting Creative with Statistics
How big are your testicles and what does that mean?
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
How to Cycle Really Fast
How much better are the pros than the rest of us and how effective is slipstreaming?
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
The astronomer, Carl Sagan, famously said that there were more stars in our Universe than grains of sand on the Earth’s beaches. But was it actually true? More or Less tries to count the nearly uncou…
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
Running at the World Cup
This week we take a look at some of the statistics which have caught our attention at the World Cup. There has been much debate in both the press and social media about the large distances which Russ…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago
How many words do you need to speak a language?
Ein Bier bitte? Loyal listener David made a new year's resolution to learn German. Three years later, that's about as far as he's got. Keen to have something to aim for, he asked More or Less how man…
Published on 7 years, 6 months ago