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Chance encounters

Is the chance of bumping into your boss on holiday greater than you think?

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Weight of the world

How fat could we get? Plus, statistics to the rescue in Pacquiao-Bradley boxing row.

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Hit movies and killer birthdays

What is the highest-earning film ever if you adjust for inflation?

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Drinks and drugs capital of the world?

Do residents of the tiny micronesian island of Palau really smoke more cannabis?

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Who are the Libor losers?

How much damage did messing with Libor actually do to the financial system?

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The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating

Can maths prove whether the Tour de France has clamped down on the use of banned drugs?

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Gun laws and gold medals

Would tighter gun laws lead to fewer gun deaths? Also: how Olympians have changed.

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How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?

How extraordinary was Ye Shiwen's Olympic performance? More or Less looks at the numbers.

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How to lose money - fast

Is the rapid growth of high frequency trading progress or a threat to the financial system

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Levelling the statistical playing field

Which countries over and under achieved at London 2012?

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Are African leaders more likely to die in office?

Are African leaders more likely than their counterparts elsewhere to die in office?

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How to explain infinity to a four-year-old

Can Johnny Ball explain infinity to a 4-year-old? Plus, an interview with Count von Count.

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Where are all the US Paralympics gold medals?

Why did the USA top the gold medals league in the Olympics, but not the Paralympics?

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Investigating crime statistics

Investigating Sweden's high rape rate; and which surprising countries top kidnap league?

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Factchecking America

We ask - who fact-checks the fact-checkers?

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Plenty more fish in the sea?

Newspaper headlines claim "Just 100 cod left in the North Sea". Can that be right?

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Predicting the Presidency

This week Nate Silver tells us who he thinks will win the 2012 Presidential race.

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Predicting the global population

Predicting the global population

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Life-saving Economics

How Nobel prize-winning economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley are helping save lives.

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Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?

On More or Less this week we look at how the probability of an earthquake is estimated.

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US Convictions

Do 99.5% of prosecutions in the US end up in convictions as Conrad Black claims?

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Polling voodoo? Predicting the US election

How did Nate Silver predict the outcome of voting in every state in the US elections?

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Brain food and bacteria

Ruth Alexander explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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Fergie-time

Fergie-Time. Do Manchester United really get more added time at the end of matches

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How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?

Assessing the cricketer's performance in the recent test match between England and India.

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What is "rare"?

When we say something is rare what do we mean?

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Fact-checking US gun-crime statistics

Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the debate on firearms deaths.

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Numbers of 2012

Tim Harford and guests look back at the most surprising statistics of 2012.

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The Parable of the Ox

Tim Harford tells us about a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition.

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Food waste and Scrabble

Reports this week suggest that we are wasting 50 per cent of our food globally.

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