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    WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

    From penguins to nematodes - is it possible to count how many animals are born every day?

  2. WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

    A forgotten French mathematician’s unusual approach to the stock market.

  3. WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

    Can alligators run at 50kmph? Join us in clocking alligators’ gaits.

  4. WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

    We investigate the murder rate in popular crime series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

  5. WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

    Are 74% of African girls aged 15-24 HIV positive?

  6. WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

    Education is failing our kids, claim experts. We go sleuthing around the world.

  7. WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

    Alcohol consumption has fallen sharply according to Russia’s health ministry

  8. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  9. WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

    A tribute to Hans Rosling, a master communicator with a passion for global development.

  10. WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

    Renewable capacity has surpassed that of coal–is this good news? Plus an asteroid update.

  11. WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

    Assessing the accuracy of a Groundhog; How many English people have right royal relatives?

  12. WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?

    In foreign aid terms what’s the best way of measuring how generous a country is?

  13. WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician

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

  14. WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

    Statistician Hans Rosling’s family talk about the book they co-wrote about preconceptions

  15. WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day

    Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?

  16. WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

    How many people die for every kilo of cocaine?

  17. WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

    How many people have died during President Duterte’s drug crackdown?

  18. WS More or Less: Dozy Science

    How much sleep do we really need?

  19. WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  20. WS More or Less: Does Sweden really have a six hour day?

    Can you reduce working hours without affecting productivity?

  21. WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

    Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?

  22. WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

    Are research findings misrepresented by funders, PR machines and the media?

  23. WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

    Finding out if Nigerian politicians really get paid more than the American President.

  24. WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

    How likely are assassination attempts on heads of state to succeed?

  25. WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?

    What is the difference between 96% similarity or sharing 20% of our DNA?

  26. WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

    Could the US President’s Diet Coke habit affect his health? and 'contained' wildfires

  27. WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

    Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?

  28. WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

    How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

  29. WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

    Are mega-dams really sustainable?

  30. WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

    Has 2016 been a particularly bad year for terrorism in Europe?

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