More or Less: Behind the Stats
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How to approach the world through numbers
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
How many butterflies are there in the world?
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
Data, extreme weather and climate change
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?
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