To ice or not to ice?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The ALS ice bucket challenge viral phenomenon has raised over $100m. Is this good for charitable giving overall, and should we be more choosy about the charities we give to? Plus: is there a 'rising tide' of anti-Semitism in Europe; does Shakespeare have the largest vocabulary, or is the Bard bested by hip hop’s finest; and is the current generation of young people likely to live shorter lives than their parents?
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.5 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:18.0 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
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| 0:36.0 | Thanks for downloading more or less from the BBC. This is the version first broadcast on Radio 4. |
| 0:42.0 | If you're a regular listener to the shorter World Service |
| 0:45.4 | podcast of more or less just want to let you know that the second item in this |
| 0:49.1 | program is one you'll already have heard. Here's Tim Harford. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello and welcome to more. one you'll already have heard. He's Tim Harford. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less, the program that dumps a bucket of |
| 0:57.4 | iced water over dodgy statistics in the news and in life. This week does the evidence support claims of a rising tide of |
| 1:05.7 | anti-Semitism across Europe and we delve into the world of stylometrics to find out |
| 1:11.6 | if data can prove conclusively that this is better |
| 1:19.0 | than this. To be or not to be that is the question. |
| 1:24.0 | But first, we'll be looking at the... |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, hang on... |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, no. |
| 1:29.0 | A bucket of ice water, no, you can fucking right off. |
| 1:32.0 | None of my friends have nominated me for the ice bucket challenge |
| 1:34.6 | that's because you don't have any friends too yeah very funny Keith very funny |
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