Last night I was watching an episode of Numb3rs (on Rai Due on Sunday evening). For those not familiar, Numb3rs is a show where the protagonists solve the police cases mainly with the use of mathematics and physics. In my humble opinion there are a lot of situations you pull a little 'to the limit that certainly does not help to remove aura of magic and impossibility that surrounds the man of science and science in general-and unfortunately is so widespread among the people. But we must say that there are also interesting ideas. Look for example this explanation of the Monty Hall problem :
I only found this version in English. For those interested, the episode was called "Manhunt" (orig.: "Man Hunt"), Series 1, episode 13.
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