Explore "numeracy" with insightful episodes like "From the Vault: The Origins of Numeracy", "Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less", "Listener Mail: Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Numeracy skills, saving for retirement and why millennials are not investing for their future" from podcasts like ""Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "More or Less: Behind the Stats", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind" and "Money Clinic with Claer Barrett"" and more!
What are numbers and where does our number sense come from? Is numeracy an innate part of our biology, or is it a cultural invention? In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the origins of numbers. (originally published 6/15/2021)
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A chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full. Tim talks to Michael Blastland and Sir Andrew Dilnot about how More or Less came into being (after several rejections), whether politicians and journalists are more numerate now, and where the name come from. Then, the very first episode of More or Less, originally broadcast on Radio 4 on 13 November 2001.
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