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WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History
Its ten years since some of the world’s richest nations met in Gleneagles, Scotland. It was there that the G8 agreed to improve trade with developing nations, increase aid, and to wipe the debt of so…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Greece Special
Is it true that Greece failed to collect 89% of taxes in 2010? Tim Harford and the More or Less team look at the numbers behind the tax system and the other statistics used to tell the story of the G…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Biggest Movies
The film Jurassic World broke the record for the biggest opening weekend taking $511m. It’s a record that has been broken once already this year and most of the top ten films with the biggest opening…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you’ll develop? And does cricket’s Duckworth-Lewis method need to evolve?
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint
Global Footprint We’re often told that we consume so much that we need one and a half planets. It comes from the Global Footprint Network a think-tank that has pioneered ecological foot-printing but …
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
It's the last in the series so we're packing in the statistical goodies so that you can go into numerical hibernation until August. We're looking at the street value of drugs: when police claim that …
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is to blame for migrant deaths in Qatar. And we solve the fiendish maths exam question that baffled students so much it became a trend on Twitter.
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
World Cup Migrant Deaths
Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
WS MoreOrLess: John Nash
On 23 May, the mathematician John Nash was killed in a car crash, alongside his wife Alicia. The couple were in their 80s. Professor Nash was on his way home from Norway after receiving the prestigio…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Seven-day NHS
This week: Seven Day NHS. As a commitment appears in the Queen's Speech to introduce a 'truly seven day-a-week NHS' we look at David Cameron's assertion that mortality rates are 16% higher for peopl…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago