Pregnancy and Homicide?
In More or Less, Ruth Alexander checks out a claim in Gone Girl, In Trending, Mukul Devichand looks at political killings in Libya and In the Why Factor, Jo Fidgen ponders poetry.
In More or Less,
Is homicide a leading cause of death for pregnant women as claimed in the film Gone Girl? Ruth Alexander asks Dr Katherine Gold from the University of Michigan if it's true. And can we trust country rankings seen in the growing number of performance indices?
In Trending
Activists in Libya have been receiving threats online from people who do not like their views. Some have even been assassinated including 18 year-old Tawfik Bensaud. Presenter Mukul Devichand talks to Tawfik's cousin and to one of the founders of the Libyan Youth Movement on Facebook.
In the Why Factor
Jo Fidgen reveals the power of poetry to teach us language, inspire and console us.
(Image: Ben Affleck in a scene from Gone Girl. Credit: Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/AP Photo )
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