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Climate Change
More Or Less investigates the claim that climate change has contributed to war in Syria
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Sympathy for Jihadis
More Or Less investigates a claim about the level of sympathy among Muslims for Jihadis
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Has Islamic State Been Losing Territory?
More Or Less asks if Islamic State has been losing territory
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Creativity and Mental Illness
More Or Less asks if creative people are more likely to suffer from mental illness
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China鈥檚 One Child Policy
More Or Less investigates the impact on population growth of China鈥檚 one child policy
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Processed Meat and Cancer
More Or Less asks if processed meats are as cancer- causing as cigarettes
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Oil and Trainers
The claims that millions of barrels of Nigeria鈥檚 oil are stolen every day
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Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?
More Or Less hears this year鈥檚 Nobel prize winning economist鈥檚 concerns over foreign aid
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Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?
More Or Less asks if tall people really are more likely to get cancer.
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Football鈥檚 Red Card Clich茅
More Or Less asks if the football clich茅 is true: 鈥渋t鈥檚 harder to play against 10 men鈥
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How Reliable is Psychology Science?
More Or Less asks how reliable is psychological science?
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The Rise of the Giants
More Or Less asks if the growth of the average rugby pack has finally plateaued.
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How Many is Too Many Bananas?
More Or Less investigates the belief that eating too many bananas will kill you.
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Queuing Backwards
Britons love to queue but have we been getting it wrong?
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China Stock Market Crash
More Or Less puts the Chinese market crash in a global context
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The Elliptical Pool Table
More Or Less examines the geometry of a very different game of pool.
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Worms Wars
More Or Less examines the benefits 鈥 or otherwise - of mass deworming projects
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Wrestlers: Dying too young?
More Or Less asks if wrestlers are more likely to die young than other athletes
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Counting Foreign Fighters
More Or Less investigates the number of foreigners fighting in the Middle East
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Live 8 the G8 and Making Poverty History
How have the poorest countries have fared in the decade since the Gleneagles agreement?
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The Greek Odyssey
The Greek economic crisis explained with help from Homer鈥檚 Odyssey
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Millennium Development Goals
More Or Less asks how well we鈥檝e done in reaching the Millennium Development Goals.
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Biggest Movies
More Or Less looks behind the box office figures for record breaking film releases.
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Horoscope Health
Can your horoscope predict which diseases you鈥檒l develop? More Or Less takes a close look
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Global Footprint
Do we consume so much that we need more than one planet to sustain our consumption?
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John Nash
The life and work of mathematician John Nash; exam stress in India; denim jeans
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Death Row
Spending life on death row in the US, social media and PTSD, and the Y chromosome
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Big Numbers
More Or Less finds out why computers struggle to process big numbers.
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Princess Charlotte
How far will the new royal baby boost the British economy? More Or Less investigates.
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Nuns on the Rise
More Or Less checks the figures behind a reported trebling of Catholic nuns in Britain