Micromorts and your chance of death from everyday tasks

What are the risks of death from the everyday, and sometimes not so everyday, things that we do?

How does the risk of death from driving compare to skydiving, or swimming and shark attacks? How many bananas will result in death?

Let’s find out. This ep discusses ‘micromorts’, which are units of risk indicating a one-in-a-million chance of death.

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PS. The thumbnail text may trigger some of the statistically inclined since, I mean, life is ‘dangerous’ in the sense of leading to death 100% of the time 😁

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