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11/09/2009

Tim Harford and the team examine reports that the world will cool over the next two decades, before global warming resumes, and use maths to decode a Beatles musical mystery.

Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine reports that the world will cool over the next two decades, before global warming resumes. They also examine a claim that beautiful people have more daughters, and use maths to decode a Beatles musical mystery.

An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4.

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30 minutes

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Sun 13 Sep 200920:00

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  • Fri 11 Sep 200913:30
  • Sun 13 Sep 200920:00

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