Podcast Episodes

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

It is a commonly held belief that if women spend enough time together, their bodies start to communicate through chemical signals, known as pheromones. Eventually the women’s bodies will start to men…

Published on 9 years, 3 months ago

Irish Passports

Britons entitled to Irish passports After the Brexit vote in June, so many Britons applied for Irish passports that Ireland’s foreign minister had to ask them to stop – pointing out that the UK remai…

Published on 9 years, 3 months ago

Death Penalty abolition

Statistics suggest that officially about half of the countries in the world have abolished Capital Punishment, and a further 52 have stopped its use in practice. But we tell the story behind the numb…

Published on 9 years, 3 months ago

Gender Pay Gap

The “gender pay gap” This topic has been in the news this week after the Institute for Fiscal Studies published research showing women end up 33% worse off than their male counterparts after they hav…

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

With high profile attacks in Brussels, Nice and Munich, you might think that 2016 has been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe. But what happens when you put the numbers in historical con…

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

Counting Terror Deaths

Is 2016 an unusually deadly year for terrorism?

In a joint investigation with BBC Newsbeat and BBC Monitoring, we’ve analysed nearly 25,000 news articles to assess whether 2016 so far has been a unusu…

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

World Records are being set at a much faster rate in swimming than in other sports. At the Rio Olympics, British swimmer Adam Peaty managed to break the men's 100m breaststroke world record twice in …

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

Grammar Schools

It has been reported that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning on lifting the ban on creating new grammar schools. Chris Cook, Policy Editor for Newsnight, has been looking at the evidence for whet…

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

How can we use statistics to predict how many medals each nation will win? We speak to Dr Julia Bredtmann, an economist at the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. She has come up with a mode…

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago

Plastic Bags

The Government says that since the introduction of the 5p fee for single use plastic bags their use has plummeted. We take a look at the numbers.

Olympic Medals at Rio 2016 The Olympic Games are with …

Published on 9 years, 4 months ago