Episode 138: Vaping, Firearms, and the Leading Causes of Death in the US
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?...
Words & Numbers · Antony Davies & James R. Harrigan
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Show Notes
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
Topic of the week: What will kill you
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/health/vaping-lung-injury-new-cases-530-bn/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/table-20
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