Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BB
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double mastectomy, Ti
It's often said that one dog year equals seven human years. But is it true? Tim Harford and Ben Cart
Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers being used in the political battle about the UK and its membe
Birds + windows =? The BBC Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2 million birds d
More or Less creates the Alternative Premier League, with lead scorer goals chalked off to work out
Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake in a famous economic paper that h
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, was Britain’s first female prime minister and one
It’s the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city of L’Aquila in Italy and whi
What if a super-villain took control of the world's gold a melted it in to a cube? How big would it
With an avalanche of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used to change our
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America tha
With the news that a baby has been ‘cured’ of HIV what do the numbers tell us about the epidemic. Ru
Kenya votes for its next President on 4th March. The opinion polls show that it is neck-and-neck bet
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide is calculated. He also
This week Ruth Alexander looks at Manchester United versus Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champio
Canada has stopped distributing its smallest coin –the one cent or the penny. This week Ruth Alexand
