Episode 138: Vaping, Firearms, and the Leading Causes of Death in the US

Season 1 Episode 138

As the saying goes, nothing can be certain except death and taxes. Thousands of people die every year from a remarkably wide variety of causes. What are the top five causes of death in the US? Are you more likely to be killed by a knife than a gun? What do diet and exercise have to do with death? Join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they cover death by rare diseases, vaping, firearms and more in this week’s episode of Words & Numbers.

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Quick hits

Speculators

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/upshot/Bernie-Sanders-housing-plan.html

https://news.streetroots.org/2019/09/13/wall-street-speculators-and-loss-affordable-housing

San Francisco library eliminates overdue fines

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13866475/san-francisco-public-library-eliminates-overdue-fines

Foolishness of the week

Confessing one’s climate sins

https://pagesix.com/2019/09/22/radioheads-thom-yorke-admits-hes-a-climate-change-hypocrite/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/specials/climate-confessions-share-solutions-climate-change-n1054791