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75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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24:03

Is Crime Rising?

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2017/05/05

It looks like homicides are on the rise - but better check the footnotes

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WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

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2017/05/01

How to use mathematics to find your partner. And, how reliable are pregnancy due dates?

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28:01

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

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2017/04/28

Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.

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9:20

WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans –...

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2017/04/21

Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?

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23:33

Living standards and Kate Bush maths

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2017/04/21

Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush

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9:12

WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

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2017/04/14

How much do you know about the world?

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24:01

Economics of Overbooking

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2017/04/14

Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.

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WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of...

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2017/04/10

A single nuclear weapon could destroy America’s entire electrical grid, claims a former head of the CIA. The explosion would send out an electromagnetic pulse – resulting in famine, societal collapse and what one newspaper has called a “Dark Apocalypse”.But are hungry squirrels a greater threat to the electrical grid than North Korean weapons? We speak to senior security adviser Sharon Burke and Yoni Applebaum from The Atlantic.Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Hannah Sander

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WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a...

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2017/03/31

The claim that “one in four” of us will suffer from a mental health problem is popular amongst campaigners, politicians and the media. But this leads you to a simple question – where is this figure from and what’s the evidence? This was exactly what neuroscientist Jamie Horder asked, and far from being simple, it led him on quite a journey. So do we really know how many people are likely to develop mental health problems – Elizabeth Cassin and Charlotte McDonald find out.Presenter: Charlotte

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WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving...

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2017/03/24

Ever since a BBC article highlighted the use of baby boxes in Finland they have become a bit of a phenomenon. They’re not new though Finland has been doing this for 75 years. The simple cardboard boxes are given to families for their new born babies to sleep in. Since their introduction cot death and has fallen and child health improved. Governments and individuals across the world have adopted them and companies have sprung up selling them. But think about for minute – can a cardboard box on its

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More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall...

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2017/03/17

Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?

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WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

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2017/03/10

Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?

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WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid...

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2017/03/03

Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars

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9:03

WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?

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2017/02/24

What happened last night in Sweden?

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9:03

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

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2017/02/17

Hidden Figures, the film, has been nominated for three awards at the Oscars and has been a box office hit in the US. It tells the little-known story of a group of African American women and their contribution to the space race in the 50s and 60s. We explore the history of how these women were recruited by Nasa and put to work on complex mathematical tasks – at a time when African Americans and women were far less likely to be employed in such jobs. (Photo: Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson,in a

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WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary...

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2017/02/13

A huge hole was left in the world this week with the death of the Swedish statistician Han Rosling. He was a master communicator whose captivating presentations on global development were watched by millions. He had the ear of those with power and influence. His friend Bill Gates said Hans ‘brought data to life and helped the world see the human progress it often overlooked’. In a world that often looks at the bad news coming out of the developing world, Rosling was determined to spread the good

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WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

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2017/02/03

Does North Carolina really rank alongside North Korea if you measure electoral integrity

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WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

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2017/01/27

How many went to celebrate – and how many to protest – the Trump inauguration?

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WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream

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2017/01/20

Blue Monday and Oxfam’s comparison wealth of billionaires and the poor –the stories that come around every year.

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WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

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2017/01/13

Were 90,000 Christians killed because of their faith in 2016?

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