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    WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

    After the death of Cheick Tiote, are African footballers more prone to heart attacks?

  2. 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

  3. WS More or Less: An urban maze

    Why some parts of town are hard to navigate.

  4. WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

    Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?

  5. WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

    When maths can get you locked up.

  6. WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

    Updating the kilogram.

  7. 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?

  8. WS More or Less: Life, death and data

    Improving data to target help to the poorest people

  9. WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?

    We look at the numbers behind the scary headlines about birth control.

  10. WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

    The survey by the Indian PM that broke all the polling rules and started a mass protest

  11. WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard

    How to question dubious statistics in just a few short steps.

  12. WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

    Which planet is closest to Earth?

  13. 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?

  14. WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

    The W.H.O. say 95% of people in cities breathe unsafe air, but what does 'unsafe' mean?

  15. Would firing staff 'at will' work? (R4)

    Is there any evidence to support the Beecroft Review's recommended changes to law? and...

  16. Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

    We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.

  17. World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins

    Where does Nigeria’s plan to revise its GDP leave our understanding of growth in And...

  18. World Cup Migrant Deaths

    Tim Harford asks if the World Cup is really responsible for migrant deaths in Qatar.

  19. Will we die before our parents?

    Obesity may mean children have a shorter lifespan than their parents, it has been but...

  20. Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

    We look at the numbers around South Korea’s birth rate and the reasons why it’s so low.

  21. Will there be a billion climate refugees?

    We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration

  22. Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?

    Is Nvidia boss Jensen Huang right about a looming labour shortfall?

  23. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

  24. Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

    If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change?

  25. Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

    Will Nigeria’s population really reach 600million?

  26. Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?

    Ruth Alexander examines US Secretary of State, John Kerry’s claim that 40% of the be...

  27. Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

    We ask if this year’s global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.

  28. Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback

    Are cases really rising in the US or are they just testing more? Tim digs into the data.

  29. Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

    Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses

  30. Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

    How a successful football club doesn’t always require a winning team

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