98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
The Cass Review is an independent report on the state of gender identity services for under-18s...
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
The Cass Review is an independent report on the state of gender identity services for under-18s...
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Netflix has a big new show named after and inspired by a classic problem in astrophysics, 'The...
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes per day? That’s the claim circulating on...
Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist and More or Less hero, has died at...
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman – the Nobel prize-winning behavioural...
What's happening to arctic ice?
The area of ice covering the arctic ocean has been in a state of long decline, as climate change...
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
According to the head of the British military, the Russian government spends 40% of its budget on...
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
For over 50 years it’s been widely reported that speaking before a group is people’s number one...
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
As running races get longer, the gap between male and female competitors seems to close. Tim...
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Is school funding at record levels as the education secretary claimed? Why did the ONS change how...
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
In the NBA, the US professional basketball league, the average player is a shade over 6ft 6...
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
What does per capita GDP tell us about the UK economy? Did the government spend £94bn helping...
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Big medical datasets pose a serious problem. Thousands of patients’ health records are an...
Debt, students, shark and chips
What is the government’s fiscal rule on the national debt? Are international students stealing...
The global gender split in young people’s politics
In a surprising new trend, young men and women around the world are dividing by gender on their...
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Do you really pay more in council tax on a semi in Hartlepool than a mansion in Westminster? How...
A pocket-size history of the calculator
How was the calculator invented? How did it go from something the size of a table to something...
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Was there really a 5% measles vaccination rate in Birmingham? Has Brexit already cost 6% of the...
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
We investigate Oxfam’s claim that “since 2020, the five richest men in the world have seen their...
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Was Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves wrong about the increase in the price of the weekly...
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