成人快手

Day light saving time and heart attacks

Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?

• 8 mins

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

Is the West African king, Mansa Musa, the richest person who ever lived?

• 8 mins

Chess cheats and the GOAT

What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.

• 10 mins

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate

• 8 mins

Where is Scotland鈥檚 highest village?

A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.

• 8 mins

The economic impact of mega sporting events

Major sports events and the benefits to the local economy.

• 8 mins

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

• 27 mins

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?

• 9 mins

Nurses, flatmates and cats

We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing

• 23 mins

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world鈥檚 population

• 10 mins

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

• 27 mins

Sex Every Seven Seconds

We revisit some classic topics from past years

• 15 mins

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women

• 27 mins

Making music out of Money

A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.

• 9 mins

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

• 24 mins

WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale 鈥� recognising the nurse statistician

How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

• 10 mins

Hay Festival Special

What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

• 27 mins

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

• 9 mins

Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

• 23 mins

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

• 9 mins

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

• 15 mins

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.

• 9 mins

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

We look at numbers involved with the two World Cups going on right now.

• 8 mins

Zimbabwe鈥檚 economy: Are sanctions to blame?

We look at politicians鈥� claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe鈥檚 difficulties.

• 8 mins

Missing women from drug trials

How medical testing on just men causes problems.

• 9 mins

Pregnancy prohibitions 鈥� the evidence

Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.

• 8 mins

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?

• 8 mins

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?

• 8 mins

Mice and mind blowing maths

Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.

• 9 mins