Episode summary: In recent years population growth has slowed rapidly. Experts believe that the global population will stabilise somewhere around 11 billion people. But just because global population is stabilising doesn’t mean each country is following the global trend. Some projections estimate th...

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Episode summary: David and Rosemary were joined by Dave Hamilton, the man with many automations - from nap time to making a window stay put, there’s plenty of fun ideas to steal.

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Episode summary: A guide to the most concerning, striking and downright extraordinary numbers of 2021. Tim Harford asks three More or Less interviewees about their most significant and memorable figure over the past year. From the excess death toll of Covid-19; to declining total fertility rates, an...

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Episode summary: Donors often dislike the idea of simply giving poor people cash, but it’s usually the best way to help. Michael Faye (president of GiveDirectly) makes the philosophical and empirical case for cash transfers.

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Episode summary: Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year – if you have something to sell that is. Every year we waste hundreds of dollars on gifts that aren’t appreciated, but how can you ensure that the gifts you buy hit the mark every time? We speak to behavioural scientist Professor France...

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Episode summary: Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Jul...

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Episode summary: talk about the thousands of volunteers building it together? Heather Ford, an ethnographer of Wikipedia, joins us to talk about the power struggles and community governance that makes the site one of the most trusted information sources on the web.

Episode summary: In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make — in the West, and the U.S. in particular — to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other? Episode 11 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency. Researched and produce...

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Episode summary: Our New York after Rona miniseries comes to an end just in time for the latest Variant. The WHO turns to podcasts for a new endless stream of naming possibilities. Plus a ToE favorite playwright returns with a new musical production of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery.

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Episode summary: Slovenia has just over 2 million people and is visited by, not one, not two, but three different “santas” every festive season. But it hasn’t always been this way. Each Santa has had his moment in the spotlight—each in a different period of Slovenia’s complicated history. And in ord...

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