Episode 13: Unlucky for Some

01/12/2025 19 min Temporada 1 Episodio 13
Episode 13: Unlucky for Some

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Welcome to episode 13! Some would call it unlucky, dangerous even, and to others, it’s just another number.  But why 13? What did the number 13 ever do wrong, and why do we feel things are unlucky? In this episode, I want to explore why humans turn randomness into story and superstition; and is luck a real thing at all, or is maths and probability actually behind everything? There will be history, maths, and a bit of psychology, all to ask: what does ‘unlucky’ even mean?