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    MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

    Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?

  2. Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

    Investigating the relationship between matrimony and melancholy.

  3. Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

    What research says about the connection between reading and success in later life.

  4. Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

    How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines

  5. Has Milei fixed Argentina鈥檚 inflation problem?

    What falling inflation means for Milei鈥檚 austerity plan and economic 鈥渟hock鈥� measures

  6. Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

    Investigating claims that the Cass Review ignored 98% of valuable evidence

  7. Tackling The Three-Body Problem

    Is the physics in Netflix's new show accurate?

  8. Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

    The connection between being alone and an early death

  9. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90

  10. What鈥檚 happening to Arctic ice?

    Arctic ice has been in long decline. Do recent fluctuations change the story?

  11. Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

    We investigate how much the Russian state is spending on the war in Ukraine

  12. Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

    Tim Harford investigates the claim that public speaking is people鈥檚 number one fear.

  13. Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

    Is it really true that in extremely long races, women run faster than men?

  14. School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

    Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?

  15. NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

    How much does a man鈥檚 height affect his chances of becoming an NBA basketball player?

  16. Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

    What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on Covid recovery?

  17. The digital 鈥榬obots鈥� unlocking medical data

    Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data

  18. Debt, students, shark and chips

    What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?

  19. The global gender split in young people鈥檚 politics

    Tim Harford investigates the growing political divergence between young men and women.

  20. Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

    Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg

  21. A pocket-size history of the calculator

    Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers

  22. Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

    Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?

  23. Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?

    We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality

  24. Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

    We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill.

  25. Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

    We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe

  26. Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

    How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?

  27. Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

    We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day

  28. Deaths, taxes and missing cats

    We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats.

  29. How much money do the 鈥楴drangheta mafia make?

    We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars

  30. Numbers of the year 2023

    Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world

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