The coverage of the Living Planet Index and its claim that species populations have dropped 50% in the last 40 years aroused much suspicion among More Or Less listeners. The team looks at what the figure means and how it was calculated. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - What Happens after Right-to-Work?
What happens after so-called right-to-work legislation passes? Joe Lehman of the Mackinac Center details the experience in Michigan.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Conservatives Opposed to the Death Penalty
Conservatives broadly believe in law and order, but the death penalty as an institution has clearly failed. Marc Hyden with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty says it's time for government-run executions to end.
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Cato Daily Podcast - A Renewed Public Appetite for Federalism
The public broadly wants to shift the power to make key political decisions away from the federal government to state governments. John Samples discusses the public's developing appetite for federalism.
Public Attitudes toward Federalism: The Public's Preference for Renewed Federalism
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Cato Daily Podcast - The New Backdrop of Permanent War
We have entered a time where the backdrop for debates about executive power is endless war. Gene Healy comments on the President's assertions of nearly unlimited war powers.
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Cato Daily Podcast - College Students Demand Freedom from Speech
"Disinvitation season" for commencement speakers has become something of a hallmark of the college experience in recent years. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explains in his new essay, "Freedom from Speech."
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?
Why is Berlin the place to break the marathon world record and how long will it be before we witness someone run it in less than two hours?
Cato Daily Podcast - Educational Freedom Wins in Florida
A judge in Florida has turned back a union challenge to education savings accounts for special needs children. Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute comments.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Colorado’s Cannabis Experiment
Colorado is one of two U.S. states that has relegalized marijuana. How is the experiment going? Jon Caldara of Colorado's Independence Institute comments.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?
Two young listeners emailed the programme to ask how we calculate the distance to the sun. We decided to invite them and their parents to More or Less towers where Andrew Pontzen, an astrophysicist at University College London was on hand to explain the answer. A BBC nature documentary stated that there are 14,000 ants to every person on earth, and that were we to weigh all of these ants they would weigh the same as all the people. Can this be true? Tim Harford and Hannah Moore investigate with the help of Francis Ratnieks, professor of apiculture at the University of Sussex.