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School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people’s number one fear.
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine.
What's happening to Arctic ice?
Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.
ing Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
The connection between being alone and an early death
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?
What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.
Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?
Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.
MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)
Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?
Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?
Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.
UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Is the UK economy growing faster than , and the US?
Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next istration lead?
Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US
Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses
Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms
We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations
Shakespeare’s maths
Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare’s writing
Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon
We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign
Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
Election claims and erection claims
What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?
How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.
We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance
Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis
The magic of trigonometry
Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book ‘Love Triangle’
Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained
How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played
Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?
Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change
Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?
We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters
