More or Less

The last in this series of More or Less: Radio 4, Friday at 1.30pm BST and Sunday at 8pm BST. You can also listen online, subscribe to a podcast, and read more at the More or Less website here.

This program: is the world cooling down?; Andrew Gelman on why beautiful people (like me) have daughters (like mine) – or, sadly, maybe not; Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian; and the mathematics behind the Beatles.

Tim Harford’s blog

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Tim, also known as the Undercover Economist, writes about the economics of everyday life.

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