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A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths

What would have been the most efficient way to get to Mordor?

• 24 mins

WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

Computer programmes are being developed to combat fake news.

• 8 mins

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys

Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

• 28 mins

African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity

Tim Harford fact checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many

• 23 mins

WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?

Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are often wrong about a lot of basic facts

• 8 mins

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

• 23 mins

WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?

A listener asks whether his Volvo is the safest car on the road?

• 9 mins

Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

Tim Harford with statistics on suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis. Plus goats

• 24 mins

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

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

• 9 mins

How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans

Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football vs museums and dangerous sports

• 25 mins

WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?

• 8 mins

Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland

Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.

• 22 mins

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

Were Spitfire pilots killed after an average of four weeks in the World War Two battle?

• 9 mins

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

Tim Harford on a 蜜芽传媒 loneliness survey; school funding; same-sex divorce; loyal listeners

• 20 mins

WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?

Tim Harford talks to economist Marina Ashdade about same-sex divorce statistics.

• 9 mins

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

A 蜜芽传媒 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce and the loyalty of listeners.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus鈥� Big Ideas

The economists tackling climate change and growth.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who鈥檚 the most generous?

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

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media

What proportion of a population needs to be vaccinated to stop a disease spreading?

• 11 mins

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

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

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: When鈥檚 a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

Updating the kilogram.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

Xavier Zapata examines what the data tells us about the deadly impact of war on civilians

• 16 mins

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

Are mega-dams really sustainable?

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

What to look out for on Christmas Eve.

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

The numbers that made 2018.

• 8 mins

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.

• 8 mins

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour

• 28 mins

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

We look at the numbers behind body temperature 鈥� what is normal?

• 10 mins

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

Tim Harford asks whether 1.7% of people are intersex, and examines false claims about MPs

• 30 mins