Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death

Synopsis

A short extract from the award winning stand-up comedy show Your Days Are Numbered exploring the dark yet funny side of the statistics which often inform health campaigns. Comedy double act Timandra Harkness and Matt Parker cut through the daily dose of stats and facts prescribed to us all with clinical precision, animated skeletons and the obligatory graphs. Be warned, there is 0.00000979% chance of dying during this film.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2012

Year of production

2012

Subjects

Health Education; Mathematics

Keywords

comedy; death; health education; statistics

Online availability

URI

http://www.worldbytes.org/your-days-are-numbered-the-maths-of-death/

Price

free

Delivery

Streamed

Credits

Contributor

Matt Parker; Timandra Harkness

Distributor

Name

WORLDbytes

Email

info@worldbytes.org

Web

http://www.worldbytes.org/ External site opens in new window

Phone

020 8985 5435

Address

WORLDwrite
Millfields Lodge
201 Millfields Road
London
E5 0AL

Notes

WORLDbytes is an online TV channel set up and run by the education charity WORLDwrite which promotes excellence in citizen reporting and provides free film training to young volunteers to make this possible. The aim is to cover stories and ideas that rarely feature in the mainstream media. Free online viewing on-demand.