成人快手

Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on covid recovery?

• 28 mins

NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?

• 8 mins

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?

• 28 mins

Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?

• 8 mins

Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.

• 8 mins

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.

• 8 mins

What's happening to Arctic ice?

Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?

• 9 mins

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman explains his big ideas.

• 9 mins

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90

• 8 mins

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

The connection between being alone and an early death

• 8 mins

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

• 8 mins

98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored valuable evidence

• 11 mins

Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?

What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures

• 8 mins

Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines

• 9 mins

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.

• 10 mins

Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

• 9 mins

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?

• 29 mins

Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

Investigating research which suggested time restricted eating increased the risk of death.

• 10 mins

UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?

• 28 mins

Data for India

Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?

• 8 mins

Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants

• 30 mins

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

• 9 mins

Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations

• 28 mins

Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

• 9 mins

Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign

• 31 mins

Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation

• 9 mins

Election claims and erection claims

What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

• 28 mins

How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

• 9 mins

Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

Exit polls, election claims, and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis

• 37 mins

The magic of trigonometry

Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�

• 9 mins