More or Less

In a change to the usual format, we are podcasting Matthew Taylor’s series “Brain Culture”. He explores how neuroscience will change society, asking how the justice system will change now that we can scan criminal brains.

In More or Less this week: Government waste, a logic puzzle, the statistics of spying, Olympic economics and the Janitor problem.

In this week's More or Less: a Euro debt odyssey, the placebo effect and 70 years of social surveys.

On this week's More or Less: Scottish independence, mobile phones and cancer, and is Tendulkar the greatest sportsman?

More or Less has the latest on salt, 'zero tolerance' policing, and how to predict the adult height of growing children.

In More or Less this week: riots, debt, disability benefit and when to buy a lotto ticket.

Tim Harford and the More or Less team unpick more numbers in the news. This week: US debt, NHS funding and the "27 club".

Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.

More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest moment.

In More or Less this week: a cornucopia of wedding-related numbers. And AV explained.