More or Less Creators & Guests

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Paul Connolly is an investigative journalist, radio personality, documentary maker, and co-host of The Inquiry podcast.

Charlotte McDonald is a journalist for BBC radio, and producer of More or Less Podcast.

Michael Blastland is a writer, broadcaster, current-affairs presenter at BBC, and producer of More or Less: Behind the Stats Podcast.

Francesca Gino is an Italian-American behavioral scientist, professor of Business Administration, and author of the book, "Rebel Talent."

Felix Salmon is a financial journalist. He joined Axios as chief financial correspondent. He also wrote a Wired cover story on the Gaussian copula, and has hosted Slate's Money podcast.

Farai Chideya is a novelist, journalist, and radio host. She currently produces and hosts the podcast "Our Body Politic." She is also Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, where she teaches courses in radio production and media economics.Prior to 2009, Chideya was the host of the National Public Radio radio program "News & Notes." She produced and hosted the show "Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya," a series on politics that ran for 15 years, and the podcast "One with Farai." Before that, she hosted "Your Call," a daily radio call-in show on KALW in San Francisco. Chideya was a member of the improv comedy troupe The Immediate Gratification Players. She is also the founder and president the pop culture blog "PopandPolitics.com."In addition to radio, video and online journalism, Chideya appears as a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, Fox News, BET and HBO. She is a senior writer for the website FiveThirtyEight.Chideya's first novel, "Kiss the Sky," was published in 2009. She is part of The Finish Party writing group, and is the author of three non-fiction books about race and politics: "Don't Believe the Hype," "The Color of Our Future," and "Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters."Chideya began her career working for Newsweek magazine, MTV News, the Oxygen Network and the non-profit community news website, TheBeehive.org. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The Chicago Tribune Syndicate, The American Prospect, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vibe Magazine, Spin Magazine and Glamour.Chideya was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Harvard College.

Amy Maxmen is a science writer. Her work focuses on evolution, medicine, science policy, and the people behind research. Currently, she is a senior reporter at Nature.Maxmen's work has appeared in Wired, National Geographic, and Nature. Maxmen received her B.A. in Biology and English from the University of California Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard.

Duncan Weldon is a journalist, former political advisor, economist, researcher, and market strategist.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a psychologist at Brigham Young University. She is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and Association for Psychological Science.

Adam Fleming is a journalist and news reporter for BBC News and one of the presenters of Newscast Podcast.

David Spiegelhalter is a statistician and Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Professor of philosophy, psychology and cognitive neuroscience at CUNY. Host of Consciousness Live! podcast

Mike Wendling is an editor of the Death by Conspiracy podcast.

Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, lecturer on the Mathematics of Cities, television presenter and public speaker. Her work includes studying the patterns of human behavior, such as relationships and dating and how mathematics can apply to them.

Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist and nobel laureate.

Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, concert pianist, a scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a math professor at the University of Sheffield.

Elizabeth L. Cline is a journalist, writer, and author of the book The Conscious Closet.

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She also has a secondary appointment at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.Jetelina received her B.A. in General Physiology with a minor in Geography from the University of Arizona. She received her M.P.H. in Epidemiology and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology with a minor in Biostatistics from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.