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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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Episodes (776 available)

More or Less, How much water does AI consume?

We take a deep dive into AI’s water consumption

9 mins

More or Less, Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000

Why Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise

21 Mar 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?

Investigating a scientific paper analysing the strength and fitness of transgender women

14 Mar 2026

9 mins

More or Less, US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?

What we know about missile stockpiles following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran

7 Mar 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Has a company really discovered a million new species?

Investigating whether Basecamp Research found hundreds of thousands of bacteria species

28 Feb 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?

Investigating a claim that 100 made-up claims were found in AI papers

21 Feb 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?

Did a Roman charioteer really earn the equivalent of $15 billion dollars?

17 Feb 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?

Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

7 Feb 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?

Europe holds trillions of dollars of US shares and bonds - but can they use them?

31 Jan 2026

9 mins

More or Less, Can you get £71,000 on benefits?

Tim Harford investigates benefits, church attacks, saunas and marathon running

28 Jan 2026

29 mins

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