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The Thought Show Episodes

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    Ranking Iceland鈥檚 Football Team; Social media movements inspired by the UK鈥檚 vote to leave the EU; Why we love Cycling

    Ranking Iceland鈥檚 Football Team 鈥� is it the best football team in the world per capita?

  2. Brexit Economics; Viral videos and US murder rates; Attraction

    What might the UK鈥檚 vote to leave the European Union mean for the UK鈥檚 economy?

  3. When Companies Track Your Life; Tipsters on Trial; Loneliness

    How companies use our personal data; tipsters in league with bookies; loneliness

  4. Sexist Data Crisis, Trading Medicine in Venezuela, Copying Art

    How countries around the world fail to collect adequate data about their female citizens

  5. HIV in Africa; Hate Speech; Safe Space

    Why a claim that 74 % of African girls aged 15 鈥� 24 are HIV positive is untrue

  6. Refugee Camp Statistics, the Prison Pen Pal Debate, Being Thin

    What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? Is it true that it is 17 years?

  7. The World鈥檚 Most Profitable Product; 鈥淏lessers鈥� 鈥� South Africa鈥檚 Sugar Daddy Problem; Why are we Afraid of Robots?

    Is it true that the iPhone is the most profitable product in history?

  8. The World鈥檚 Most Diverse City, #Airbnbwhileblack, Time Perception

    Is it true or false that London is the most diverse city in the world?

  9. Leicester City Football Fluke, The Perfect Promposal, Why We Build Statues

    How surprising was it that Leicester City finished top of English Premier League?

  10. Simpson鈥檚 Paradox; The Prank Call Crimewave; How the Rest of the World Sees America

    Simpson鈥檚 Paradox explains how two opposite findings can statistically both be true

  11. Most Expensive Building, Don鈥檛 Buy Death, How America Sees Itself

    Will a new nuclear power station in the UK be the most expensive 'object' ever built?

  12. The Life Expectancy of a Pope; How Anonymous Are You; Radio Requests

    Was Pope Francis being too pessimistic when he predicted how much longer he would live?

  13. The Story of Average; The Cartoon Mouse God; Not Just Blind

    How astronomers found the average from a group of numbers and defined 鈥渢he average man鈥�.

  14. The Great EU Cabbage Myth; White People And Dreadlocks; The Meaning Of Identity

    Could there really be 26,911words of European Union regulation about the sale of cabbage?

  15. Safe Drinking, Sex Tape Mystery and Fanfiction

    Are the benefits and harms of drinking alcohol being judged correctly?

  16. Thyroid cancer in Japan; Migrant worker rights; Belief in the supernatural

    In More Or Less has thyroid cancer gone up in Japan after the Fukushima accident?

  17. Can we trust food surveys; Cricketing fans clash; What motivates magicians

    More Or Less asks if we can trust food surveys that link foods to good and bad health.

  18. Fact Checking the Big Short; The 鈥楤ride Price鈥� Story in China; Conspiracy Theory

    Are the facts about unemployment and the death rate in the film the Big Short accurate?

  19. The Problem with Antibiotics; Opposition to Afrikaans; the Origins of Life

    The problems with the antibiotics market, and the opposition to Afrikaans

  20. The Right Incentive; Promoting Marijuana; the Power of Addiction

    More Or Less asks when prize money of 拢10,000 is not a good incentive

  21. More plastic than fish; Sexual harassment in Iran; Why we like what we like

    More Or Less asks if it鈥檚 true that soon there will be more plastic than fish in the sea

  22. E-cigarettes, Why Mexican Police ran away and Why Water is Special

    More Or Less checks out a claim that e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting

  23. Gender Inbalance in Sweden

    Have refugees caused a gender imbalance in Sweden?

  24. Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

    More Or Less asks if adding up individual wealth helps to measure global inequality

  25. Gravitational Waves

    More Or Less asks if Einstein鈥檚 gravitational waves have finally been observed.

  26. Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

    More Or Less hears why Americans should take more time off.

  27. Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

    More Or Less looks back over some of the numbers that made the news in 2015

  28. Numbers of the Year 2015 鈥� Part 1

    More Or less looks back at some of the most interesting numbers of the year.

  29. How Many Stormtroopers Are There?

    How many Star Wars鈥� Stormtroopers are there? More Or Less investigates.

  30. 100 Year Floods

    More Or Less investigates whether 鈥�100 year floods鈥� only happen once a century

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