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  1. How do you count millionaires?

    Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

  2. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

  3. How did lockdown impact children?

    Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown

  4. How Deadly Is Ebola?

    Media reports are suggesting that as many as 12,000 people may have Ebola in West but...

  5. How deadly is Covid 19?

    Why there isn鈥檛 one single death rate.

  6. How dead is the internet?

    We investigate the claim that bots make up 50% of internet traffic

  7. How close is Greenland to the United States?

    Tim Harford investigates Greenland maps, climate costs, house prices and Traitors maths

  8. How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

    The Conservatives' plans to achieve a budget surplus by 2019-20 have led to near that...

  9. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Does fashion really account for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions?

  10. How accurate is baby's due date?

    This week we investigate how a baby's due date is calculated

  11. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

  12. Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

    Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

  13. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    Do 1 in 100 children who catch Covid end up hospitalised?

  14. Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

    Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers; food prices in Venezuela, and dating app statistics

  15. HIV in numbers

    With the news that a baby has been 鈥榗ured鈥� of HIV what do the numbers tell us the...

  16. Hit movies and killer birthdays (WS)

    What is the highest-earning film ever if you adjust for inflation? And are birthdays...

  17. High speed rail

    High Speed rail - Tim Harford speaks to railway consultant Chris Stokes and Alison HS2...

  18. Higgs boson statistics

    In the week scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announced that the most coveted in...

  19. Hidden Figures: The Real Story

    .African American women's part in the space race of the '50s and '60s

  20. Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

    Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women

  21. Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

    Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

  22. Health check

    The Government says Britain's health care standards have fallen behind those of our...

  23. Hay Festival Special

    What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

  24. Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

    Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?

  25. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans

  26. Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?

    Why a Politico headline overstated vaccine scepticism in the US

  27. Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?

    Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers

  28. Have more famous people died this year?

    Notable deaths, Rule Britannia and creating your own Christmas speech

  29. Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?

    Bernie Sanders says vast riches have moved to the wealthiest in the US. Is he right?

  30. Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?

    Are Hamas bombing Israel with condoms sent by the US?

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