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Hannah Fry Instagram - The big news story of 2024 that literally no one is talking about 🐛 

#2024 #circada #primenumbers #math #maths
Hannah Fry Instagram - And if that isn't badass enough, that moment in time is known as the Zanclean megaflood 🤘

Lots of fascinating papers, a great recent one is Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood by A Micallef et al (2024)
Hannah Fry Instagram - There's something very mathematically satisfying about a full circle
Hannah Fry Instagram - THE DATA DOESN'T LIE PEOPLE* 

This (admittedly quite heteronormative) example is taken from Dataclysm by Christian Rudder. 

The book is a few years old now, but a really fun read and definitely worth your time. 

* Sometimes it does tho okay so don't take this literally 🙏
Hannah Fry Instagram - AND NO, I don't think they knew what they were doing. 

Need to see it to believe it?
Structural and electronic properties of chiral single-wall copper nanotubes, by YingNi Duan, JianMin Zhang, and KeWei Xu (2014)
Hannah Fry Instagram - It's not a "fake diamond" it's a REAL ZIRCON. And that is better in every way.

Hadean age for a post-magma-ocean zircon confirmed by atom-probe tomography, by John W. Valley et al (2014)
Hannah Fry Instagram - While the way olive trees keep living is clearly great for longevity, the flip side is that it's completely rubbish for getting any sort of accurate dates or true ages. So precisely HOW old these trees are is and will always be up for debate. 
But OLIVE them are lovely regardless 🍈

(For example) Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece) by P. Cherubini et al. (2013)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Is 'disgusting' too harsh? 
No. Sort yourselves out.
Hannah Fry Instagram - The brilliant historian Greg Jenner has sent me a message to stand up for Louis in all of this, with some additional information:

"He himself was born to a mother in reclining position, and he wasn't perverted or just enjoying the view - he witnessed some births to ensure the children were legitimate babies, not swapped in (inheritance law was a massive deal)"

I therefore apologise unreservedly to Louis and the palace of versailles for implying that he gained any sort of satisfaction from it. 🧐

But don't take my word for it:

The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position,
Lauren Dundes (1987)

The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child-Bed, Francois Mauriceau (1668) (I mean, what a title 👀)

And that final quote was from William Potts Dewees, the 3rd chairman of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hannah Fry Instagram - There’s a curiously strange phenomenon when you look at the data for the ratio of baby boys to baby girls. 

For a start, slightly more boys are born than girls. (A biologist told me this was evolution’s correction for the fact that little boys are more likely to get into accidents). 

But also, this is a ratio that changes quite dramatically over time, with some peaks in really quite notable places. 

And it’s not unique to Britain. Around the world, at the end of a war, there is a spike in the number of baby boys that are born..

#strange #phenomenon #data #graph #math #maths #puzzle
Hannah Fry Instagram - Q:How do YOU f-eel about the eel? Eel-ated? Or not at all id-eel?
(The correct answer is clearly that they are horrid - but I couldn't find a pun that worked) 

A new solution to the Atlantic Eel Problem, by D.W. Tucker (1959)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Just after the financial crisis, an influential paper called “Growth in a time of debt” was published, in which two Harvard profs used data to show that high levels of debt hurt a nations economic growth. 

The paper was cited at the G20, referenced by George Osborne and Paul Ryan and used as a justification for the global austerity movement. 

Except.. the conclusions were based on a pretty important spreadsheet error. 

#data #austerity #politics #excel #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - I'm well aware that the answer to most of my "have you ever wondered..." thoughts is highly likely to be: "No. I have not. You weirdo."
But here we are.
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Hannah Fry Instagram - Here’s why scientists put a teeny tiny hat on a bird. 

(Also, I absolutely saved the best til last 🦃)

Here are the studies if you want to know more:

A Taste for the Beautiful: Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences for White Crests in Two Species of Australian Grassfinches, by Nancy Tyler Burley and Richard. Symanski (1988). 

An Eye for Detail: Selective Sexual Imprinting in Zebra Finches, by Nancy Tyler Burley (2006)

Stimuli eliciting sexual behaviour, by M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale (1965)

#birds #hats #science #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Silver lining, the 100m dash is a couple centimetres shorter to run!

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden error that Transformed the World, by Ken Alder (2002)
Hannah Fry Instagram - @fryrsquared, @kevlin.henney & Simon Singh talk about their favorite equations. Link below

Watch this Unscripted episode „A Fireside Chat with Hannah Fry, Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney“ on GOTO’s YouTube Channel
https://youtu.be/Gfc82MUjxLk

#Viral #HannahFry #SimonSingh #KevlinHenney #NavierStokes #EulersIdentity #Math #Mathematics #MathEquations
Hannah Fry Instagram - CAVEAT: this graph is based solely on first glance ratings. Once the men and women started actually interacting, the two curves were much more aligned. Really what I think this demonstrates is that the main factor of what women find 'attractive ' isn't necessarily appearance at all
Hannah Fry Instagram - I have actually been using this sentence myself for about three years, and I feel GREAT. And if that's not scientific proof I don't know what is.

Oh. That's right. Actual papers. So here's the paper on lottery winners - its an absolute classic:

Lottery winners and accident victims, Brickman 1978 

And a nice paper on the effect of gratitude:

Counting blessings versus burdens, Emmons and McCullogh 2003

Please do add your favourite papers below.

#happiness #hannahfry #science #psychology
Hannah Fry Instagram - A double-sided double agent...

Printer Steganography, Reverse Engineering the Machine Identification Code by Peter Buck (2018)
Hannah Fry Instagram - It seems that female anatomy has been a mystery for most of history—and arguably still is for many, but that’s a post for another time. 

@fryrsquared perfectly explains it all.
Hannah Fry Instagram - This idea for this (admittedly quite heteronormative) study came when the scientist, James Coan, was studying brain function of those suffering from PTSD. 
One war veteran was really struggling with the MRI machine and asked if his wife could be present. When he started getting agitated, his wife held his hand and his brain calmed down.❤️❤️

So it’s not just women who benefit from hand holding sometimes. Even big strong men too. 💪

Here’s the original study: 

Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat. James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson

The replication study:

Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat. 

James A Coan, Lane Beckes, Marlen Z Gonzalez, Erin L Maresh, Casey L Brown, Karen Hasselmo.

And the ice bath hugs study:

Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men. Gesa Berretz, Chantal Cebula, Blanca Maria Wortelmann, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Oliver T. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Julian Packheiser. 

#manvsbear #hugs #romantic #menvswomen #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Your shower thought for the day: Are numbers actually real? Do they exist outside of human thought?? What precisely IS "twoness"??? 🤯
Hannah Fry Instagram - The study I'm referring to was 10  years ago now, but it confirmed an even earlier study that had the same result.
Interpretation of diagnostic test results is so important, but SO easily misunderstood, even by those that rely on them most. And even small misunderstandings can have a big impact on our personal medical decisions. 
There is uncertainty in every aspect of medical care, we need to be comfortable with that, but the more informed we all are about what the numbers actually mean (and what they don't), the more empowered our decisions can be.

Medicine's uncomfortable relationship with math: Calculating positive predictive value, by A K Manrai, G Bhatia, J Strymish et al (2014)
Hannah Fry Instagram - See if you can guess who got themselves an editing software subscription for Christmas? 🎄 

#wrapping #presents #gauss #math
Hannah Fry Instagram - I would also like to hear from anyone that has also heard of this remedy. If only to satisfy that tiny niggling feeling that my 'good authority' maybe just wanted me to sniff their head....
Hannah Fry Instagram - We're delighted to welcome Professor Hannah Fry to Cambridge!

Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared will join the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January.
 
Learn more about Hannah's new role at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio.

#HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics #Physics
Hannah Fry Instagram - Introducing Armado the cat. Terrible actor, but very good at being aloof and superior on cue 😻
 
For more information, take a look at these studies:

The quality of being sociable: The influence of human attentional state, population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability, by Kristyn Vitale and Monique Udell (2019)

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication, by T. Humphrey, L. Proops, J. Forman, R. Spooner, and K. McComb (2020)
Hannah Fry Instagram - David Hilbert. Thought experiment LEGEND.

In his own (translated) words: David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundation of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933, edited by William Ewald and Wilfried Sieg (2013)
Hannah Fry Instagram - This is proper science, people!🥄 

Here is the study:

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute, by Megan Lim, Margaret Hellard, and Campbell Aitken (2005).

#disappearing #teaspoons #teatime #science #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Maths, yes
Science, yes
Cooking, less than yes
Faking it with editing... flawless
Hannah Fry Instagram - I just can't, I just can't. I just can't control my feet 💃🌟

#hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - If you're gonna have a motto, might as well make it one worth remembering 🌟
Hannah Fry Instagram - When I had my hysterectomy, one of my friends made a leaving card for my uterus & addressed it to ‘The womb with a view’🤭

#hannahfry #science #hysterectomy #uterus #womb #patriarchy #feminism
Hannah Fry Instagram - I couldn't help myself sorry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Merry Christmas and a very happy Gantt Chart 🎄 

#cooking #christmas #lunch #maths #math
Hannah Fry Instagram - A prophecy from the 1950s that came true. 

(Kind of). 

#future #science #prediction #hanmahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Apparently "Does the inertia of a body depend on its energy content" has only 611 citations.

Which makes me feel a bit better about some of my papers (looking at you Rate Effects on the Growth of Centres, EJAM, Fry, Smith, 2016)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Lets see how many there actually are, shall we?

Although tbh I just want someone within a 3 mile radius, knows excel, brings snacks. 

#hannahfry #finance #trustfund #data
Hannah Fry Instagram - Slowly sliding this across the table this New Year's Eve 🎉🥂

Chronic uptake of a probiotic nutritional supplement (AB001) inhibits absorption of ethylalcohol in the intestine tract - results from a randomized double-blind crossover study, by A. Pfutzner, M. Hanna, Y. Andor, D. Sachsenheimer, F. Demircik, T. Wittig and J. de Faire (2022)
Hannah Fry Instagram - So Groot was actually based on a real life boy elephant seal, huh. 

#nature #seal #fact #science #funny #boys #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - There's something heartwarming about the result—a word that evokes an emotion that is absolutely universal to every human who has ever lived, yet one that can only be experienced by creatures with a biological body. Check out the study: A Minimal Turing Test by John McCoy & Tomer Ullman. And watch out for my video series with @samsunguk on how AI is transforming small businesses. #ad
Hannah Fry Instagram - Wishing you a holiday that is joyful, jolly, and undefeated 🎄💰
Hannah Fry Instagram - That is 13 microseconds of extra sleep a year. Win.

Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system by Stephen R Meyers and Alberto Malinverno (2018)
Hannah Fry Instagram - FIRST DAY AT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHOOL
#behindthescenes #secretgenius #S2 #iplayer
Hannah Fry Instagram - Unfortunately, it's an active volcano - so I have no idea if the recursive status of Vulcan Point still holds.  But who wants to let details get in the way of a good story!?
Hannah Fry Instagram - Come for the facts, stay for the dancing pigeon impression 🕊

'Superstition' in the pigeon.
Skinner, B. F. (1948)
Hannah Fry Instagram - So remember how daytime tv shows used to use cringingly literal audio choices? Like someone says they’re a music teacher, so they show shots of their instruments while playing Pianoman, or whatever. 

Anyway, turns out that’s the kind of videos I make now. 🤣
Hannah Fry Instagram - I recognise this was unlikely to be the takeaway the researchers were aiming for from this study - and the ability of vervets to use semantic communication is indeed fascinating -  but sometimes you just need a sweet story about baby monkeys to get you through the day.

Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication by R Seyfarth, D Cheney, and Peter Marler (1980)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us 🧠

And if you’d like to read more: 

Aging and Alzheimer's disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) 

Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study,  D A Snowdon (2003) 

Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Like all amazing mistakes this is not the first (and presumably not the last) time this has happened
👀
Mass photokeratitis following ultraviolet light exposure at a nightclub by Michelle Ting, Kamran Saha and Scott Robbie (2016)

Four cases of pediatric photokeratitis present to the emergency department after watching the same theater show by Mehmet Serhat Mangan, Ceyhun Arici, Eray Atalay, Burak Tanyildiz, and Faik Oruçoğlu (2015)
Hannah Fry Instagram - I'm joining the team at C4 for the general election to run the numbers and stats all the way through the night. 

This is like the nerd version of getting to play in a world cup final, except it's all numbers and grapgs and no one ends up with muddy boots or grass stains 🏆

#swingometer #data #stats #analysis #numbernerd
Hannah Fry Instagram - A sneaky Instagram Experiment with.. er.. interesting results(?)
Hannah Fry Instagram - How do you feel about dating apps? @thecheckuppodcast
Hannah Fry Instagram - Behind the scenes of piglet production 🐽🌾

(Don’t ask me what happened to the colour on this one I was having a bad day 🙈)
#pigs #science #hannahfry #farming
Hannah Fry Instagram - There's an amazing experiment where they take people into a room, sit them down and distract them by getting them to listen to some kafka. All the while, the psychologists Achim Schützwohl and Rainer Reisenzein decided to really freak people out, by quickly reconfiguring the exit into a brightly lit green room, unfurnished except for a single red chair with a stranger sitting in it,staring them down. 

Every single participant was surprised. Every single participant said they were surprised. But only one in five people actually pulled the classic 😱😯 face. The vast majority of people had some other expression altogether. 

Of course, some people smile when happy. Of course some happy people smile. But not always. And it's dangerous to pretend that you can predict how an individual is feeling based on the movement of their facial muscles alone. 

There's a brilliant book on this topic that i thoroughly recommend: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. 

#algorithm #hannahfry #hitchcock
Hannah Fry Instagram - I decided a couple of years ago that I wanted to have as many unusual, scary, exciting, interesting experiences possible - and being part of the channel 4 election team definitely counts. 

Thanks to @bella_hignett_styling for the styling and @the.seam.uk for making this unreal green suit of dreams 💚💚 @oj_sang for making me look funnier than i am and to everyone for being so nice and supportive throughout and not noticing how genuinely terrified I was at pronouncing Jeremy Hunt. 

#hannahfry#britaindecides #channel4
Hannah Fry Instagram - Part 1 of a whole week of R-eels on eels 🐍

Such a longstanding mystery, where to start? This is a good one: Breeding places and migrations of the Eel, by J Schmidt (1923)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Some r-eel-y good studies trying to figure out the eel-usive Eel

A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man: Clause, Darwin, and Sigmund Freud's search for the testes of the Eel (1875-1877) by Matthew Perkins-McVey (2022)

Sur la maturation complete des organes genitaux de l'anguille male et l'emission spontanee by M Fontaine (1936)
Hannah Fry Instagram - You can read Skinner's own recollections of 'Project Pigeon' or as he describes it: "a crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the tracks intellectually speaking..."

Pigeons in a pelican, by B.F. Skinner (1960)
Hannah Fry Instagram - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Hannah Fry Instagram - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Hannah Fry Instagram - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Hannah Fry Instagram - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Hannah Fry Instagram - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Hannah Fry Instagram - Who knew passports could be this pretty?! @fryrsquared #SecretGeniusOfModernLife #iPlayer #Passports #Travel
Hannah Fry Instagram - 📐 Mathematicians, what's the best piece of advice you've received?

Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared joined the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January.

Learn more about Hannah's new role at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio.

#HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics
Hannah Fry Instagram - Back hosting have I got news for you tonight - and I took exactly zero pictures this time. So you’ll have to make do with the actual show itself, tonight 9pm, BBC1. 

Enjoy! 🌟🌟

Ps I’ve been using one of them lash serums and I’m pleased to say the non stop three months of itchy eyelids has totally paid off. Causing a hurricane in the South Pacific now every time I blink 💅🏻

#hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Can maths be fun? 

Professor Hannah Fry explains how she gets her daughters to engage in and enjoy mathematical thinking.

The Today Programme | Catch Up on BBC Sounds
Hannah Fry Instagram - P.S. fruit flies don’t spontaneously spawn from a lonely banana. (they sneak through cracks in your window).

If you want to know more about spontaneous generation, you can try:
Things Come to Life by Henry Harris (I haven’t actually read it though - so don’t blame me if it’s bad)
Hannah Fry Instagram - I will never stop trying to make 'Shark Potatoes' happen

A nice assessment of where we currently stand: Research Status of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Collection Technology, by B Liu, X Wang, X Zhang, J Liu, L Rong, and W Ma (2024)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Finally some truths are rev-eel-ed! It's been an 'elver journey. 

First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea, by R.M. Wright, A.T. Piper, K Aarestrup, J.M.N. Azevedo, G Cowan, A Don, M Gollock, S Rodriguez Ramallo, R Velterop, A Walker, H Westerberg and D Righton (2022)
Hannah Fry Instagram - I like to describe my natural skin tone as 'white with a hint of blue' 💙 

#accidentaldiscovery #hannahfry #invention #faketan #redhair
Hannah Fry Instagram - Important to add, seeing as I'm from Harlow, this is actually my native tongue 💅🏻

#essexgirl #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - The chances of having a baby boy or a girl subtly change depending on when in the cycle you conceive*

AND IT TURNS OUT THE SAME IS TRUE FOR COWS 🐄 

#data #math #maths #farming #fitbit #babies #meme #cowsofinstagram #science #animals #farmer

* the theories for why this might be the case revolve around the subtle hormone and acidity changes in the female at different times in the cycle favouring certain sperm over others.
Hannah Fry Instagram - Didn’t your mum ever tell you not to put shoes on the table? 

#hack #math #maths #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - My sisters think they’re sooooo funny. 

#sisters #secretsanta
Hannah Fry Instagram - Honestly, tracking an eel is quite the ord-eel. 

New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis, by Y.K. Change, E Feunteun, Y Miyazawa and K Tsukamoto (2020)
Hannah Fry Instagram - 📖
Hannah Fry Instagram - Have I just spent tens of thousands to be involved in an elaborate tech bro joke? 🫠
Hannah Fry Instagram - Rumours are once you boot it up it’s still running Windows XP. 

#imjoking! #quantum #quantumcomputing #thefuture #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - I recently discovered that Americans don't have the word FAFF.
What on earth are you supposed to use instead!?
Hannah Fry Instagram - Tonight’s the night back on @bbctwo at 8pm for brand new series of The Secret Genius of Modern Life starting with a look at the passport. Watch live or catch up via link in bio #secretgenius #bbctwo
Hannah Fry Instagram - Planning on using this for my origin story when I eventually become Mayor of London

Hosting @haveigotnews tonight at 9pm, bbc1 and then iPlayer soon after

#comedy #bbc #haveigotnewsforyou #trending
Hannah Fry Instagram - Part 2

Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us about dementia. 🧠

And if you’d like to read more: 

Aging and Alzheimer's disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) 

Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study,  D A Snowdon (2003) 

Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
Hannah Fry Instagram - Yes, okay if you really want to be a stickler about it, i’ll admit. The particle physicists probably overall had a slightly bigger impact on the outcome of ww2.. 💣 But im still taking this as a win for the mathmos. 🪖

EDIT: You'll notice the audio is a bit off in this one - my apologies. It's because, even though your girl can do second order partial differential equations with her eyes closed, she apparently doesn't know the difference between stereo and mono audio channels when it comes to editing videos. It will never happen again I promise. 🙏

Read more about the German Tank Problem and its clever mathematical trick here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10274-6 A Bayesian Treatment of the German Tank Problem, by Cory Simon (2023)

#ww2 #panzers #math #mathematician #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - What are the chances of a coincidence? Here are three questions you can ask yourself. (Cos often things are much less coincidental than they look)

Here’s a lovely little book on the topic if you want to read more: The Improbability Principle - by David Hand
Hannah Fry Instagram - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
Hannah Fry Instagram - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
Hannah Fry Instagram - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
Hannah Fry Instagram - Imagine deciding you want to sail a ship full of frozen water to a part of the world that has NEVER SEEN ICE 🧊 

If you want to know more, here are some books you might like: 

Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson (2003)

The American Ice Harvests: An Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918 by Richard
O. Cummings (1949)

#iceking #caribbean #historical #hannahfry
Hannah Fry Instagram - Rumours are there’s a Brian Cox wig that runners wear to do his walking shots when he’s not around 💅🏻

#secretgenius #behindthescenes
Hannah Fry Instagram - Deep voice privilege
Hannah Fry Instagram - Big news, people. HUGE. 
 
Curious cases is coming back! This time, sadly, without my long-time partner in crime @adamdavidrutherford 

But, after careful consideration, we decided the show needed to be 💯% more irish, and so @thedaraobriain and I taking on your questions from September 🍀

You'll be pleased to learn he's a much more enthusiastic co-host than he is a memer
Hannah Fry Instagram - When researcher, Eric Cadora, decided to map the prison population of New York he made a surprising discovery.

Uncharted with Hannah Fry | Listen on BBC Sounds
Hannah Fry - 516.8K Likes - The big news story of 2024 that literally no one is talking about 🐛 

#2024 #circada #primenumbers #math #maths

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Caption : The big news story of 2024 that literally no one is talking about 🐛 #2024 #circada #primenumbers #math #maths
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Hannah Fry - 480.2K Likes - And if that isn't badass enough, that moment in time is known as the Zanclean megaflood 🤘

Lots of fascinating papers, a great recent one is Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood by A Micallef et al (2024)

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Caption : And if that isn’t badass enough, that moment in time is known as the Zanclean megaflood 🤘 Lots of fascinating papers, a great recent one is Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood by A Micallef et al (2024)
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Hannah Fry - 390K Likes - There's something very mathematically satisfying about a full circle

390K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : There’s something very mathematically satisfying about a full circle
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Hannah Fry - 338.8K Likes - THE DATA DOESN'T LIE PEOPLE* 

This (admittedly quite heteronormative) example is taken from Dataclysm by Christian Rudder. 

The book is a few years old now, but a really fun read and definitely worth your time. 

* Sometimes it does tho okay so don't take this literally 🙏

338.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : THE DATA DOESN’T LIE PEOPLE* This (admittedly quite heteronormative) example is taken from Dataclysm by Christian Rudder. The book is a few years old now, but a really fun read and definitely worth your time. * Sometimes it does tho okay so don’t take this literally 🙏
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Hannah Fry - 298K Likes - AND NO, I don't think they knew what they were doing. 

Need to see it to believe it?
Structural and electronic properties of chiral single-wall copper nanotubes, by YingNi Duan, JianMin Zhang, and KeWei Xu (2014)

298K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : AND NO, I don’t think they knew what they were doing. Need to see it to believe it? Structural and electronic properties of chiral single-wall copper nanotubes, by YingNi Duan, JianMin Zhang, and KeWei Xu (2014)
Likes : 297962
Hannah Fry - 209.4K Likes - It's not a "fake diamond" it's a REAL ZIRCON. And that is better in every way.

Hadean age for a post-magma-ocean zircon confirmed by atom-probe tomography, by John W. Valley et al (2014)

209.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : It’s not a “fake diamond” it’s a REAL ZIRCON. And that is better in every way. Hadean age for a post-magma-ocean zircon confirmed by atom-probe tomography, by John W. Valley et al (2014)
Likes : 209399
Hannah Fry - 196.7K Likes - While the way olive trees keep living is clearly great for longevity, the flip side is that it's completely rubbish for getting any sort of accurate dates or true ages. So precisely HOW old these trees are is and will always be up for debate. 
But OLIVE them are lovely regardless 🍈

(For example) Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece) by P. Cherubini et al. (2013)

196.7K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : While the way olive trees keep living is clearly great for longevity, the flip side is that it’s completely rubbish for getting any sort of accurate dates or true ages. So precisely HOW old these trees are is and will always be up for debate. But OLIVE them are lovely regardless 🍈 (For example) Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece) by P. Cherubini et al. (2013)
Likes : 196723
Hannah Fry - 187.9K Likes - Is 'disgusting' too harsh? 
No. Sort yourselves out.

187.9K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Is ‘disgusting’ too harsh? No. Sort yourselves out.
Likes : 187907
Hannah Fry - 175.9K Likes - The brilliant historian Greg Jenner has sent me a message to stand up for Louis in all of this, with some additional information:

"He himself was born to a mother in reclining position, and he wasn't perverted or just enjoying the view - he witnessed some births to ensure the children were legitimate babies, not swapped in (inheritance law was a massive deal)"

I therefore apologise unreservedly to Louis and the palace of versailles for implying that he gained any sort of satisfaction from it. 🧐

But don't take my word for it:

The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position,
Lauren Dundes (1987)

The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child-Bed, Francois Mauriceau (1668) (I mean, what a title 👀)

And that final quote was from William Potts Dewees, the 3rd chairman of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania.

175.9K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : The brilliant historian Greg Jenner has sent me a message to stand up for Louis in all of this, with some additional information: “He himself was born to a mother in reclining position, and he wasn’t perverted or just enjoying the view – he witnessed some births to ensure the children were legitimate babies, not swapped in (inheritance law was a massive deal)” I therefore apologise unreservedly to Louis and the palace of versailles for implying that he gained any sort of satisfaction from it. 🧐 But don’t take my word for it: The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position, Lauren Dundes (1987) The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child-Bed, Francois Mauriceau (1668) (I mean, what a title 👀) And that final quote was from William Potts Dewees, the 3rd chairman of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Hannah Fry - 173.6K Likes - There’s a curiously strange phenomenon when you look at the data for the ratio of baby boys to baby girls. 

For a start, slightly more boys are born than girls. (A biologist told me this was evolution’s correction for the fact that little boys are more likely to get into accidents). 

But also, this is a ratio that changes quite dramatically over time, with some peaks in really quite notable places. 

And it’s not unique to Britain. Around the world, at the end of a war, there is a spike in the number of baby boys that are born..

#strange #phenomenon #data #graph #math #maths #puzzle

173.6K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : There’s a curiously strange phenomenon when you look at the data for the ratio of baby boys to baby girls. For a start, slightly more boys are born than girls. (A biologist told me this was evolution’s correction for the fact that little boys are more likely to get into accidents). But also, this is a ratio that changes quite dramatically over time, with some peaks in really quite notable places. And it’s not unique to Britain. Around the world, at the end of a war, there is a spike in the number of baby boys that are born.. #strange #phenomenon #data #graph #math #maths #puzzle
Likes : 173563
Hannah Fry - 121.9K Likes - Q:How do YOU f-eel about the eel? Eel-ated? Or not at all id-eel?
(The correct answer is clearly that they are horrid - but I couldn't find a pun that worked) 

A new solution to the Atlantic Eel Problem, by D.W. Tucker (1959)

121.9K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Q:How do YOU f-eel about the eel? Eel-ated? Or not at all id-eel? (The correct answer is clearly that they are horrid – but I couldn’t find a pun that worked) A new solution to the Atlantic Eel Problem, by D.W. Tucker (1959)
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Hannah Fry - 84.2K Likes - Just after the financial crisis, an influential paper called “Growth in a time of debt” was published, in which two Harvard profs used data to show that high levels of debt hurt a nations economic growth. 

The paper was cited at the G20, referenced by George Osborne and Paul Ryan and used as a justification for the global austerity movement. 

Except.. the conclusions were based on a pretty important spreadsheet error. 

#data #austerity #politics #excel #hannahfry

84.2K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Just after the financial crisis, an influential paper called “Growth in a time of debt” was published, in which two Harvard profs used data to show that high levels of debt hurt a nations economic growth. The paper was cited at the G20, referenced by George Osborne and Paul Ryan and used as a justification for the global austerity movement. Except.. the conclusions were based on a pretty important spreadsheet error. #data #austerity #politics #excel #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 83K Likes - I'm well aware that the answer to most of my "have you ever wondered..." thoughts is highly likely to be: "No. I have not. You weirdo."
But here we are.

83K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : I’m well aware that the answer to most of my “have you ever wondered…” thoughts is highly likely to be: “No. I have not. You weirdo.” But here we are.
Likes : 83029
Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Likes : 81435
Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Likes : 81435
Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
Likes : 81435
Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
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Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
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Hannah Fry - 81.4K Likes - This is my wonderful dad - the last of the Frys - who finally left us a few days ago.

I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women - an entire dynasty of female only descendants.

Alzheimer's isn't the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn't about losing your keys and thinking you're in your childhood again. It's so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. 

But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I've ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone.

He was a man's man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn't demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. 

He'd been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. 

He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer's took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it.

Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔

81.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : This is my wonderful dad – the last of the Frys – who finally left us a few days ago. I don’t know if you can tell from the photos, but my dad was so British. He liked only fools and horses and pebble beaches and food without any flavour, like bread and butter pudding and gammon egg and chips. He spent his childhood hiding from the blitz in a cage under his kitchen table, and from teachers and policemen while playing truant from school. His youth, he spent covered in motorbike grease and oil, spray painting cars against a soundtrack of Pink Floyd. And his adulthood surrounded by women – an entire dynasty of female only descendants. Alzheimer’s isn’t the disease people like to pretend it is. It isn’t about losing your keys and thinking you’re in your childhood again. It’s so, so much crueller and more horrifying than that. But i remember him before, when my dad was smarter than at least half of the professors I’ve ever met, and more capable at building things and fixing things and inventing things than practically anyone. He was a man’s man in the quietest possible way. Not a big drinker or partier, he didn’t demand attention or make himself known. But when he had something to say, it would be razor sharp, insightful, and delivered with devastating precision. My friends called him the conversational samuri. He’d been born in the days when polio routinely robbed young men and women of their prospects. So he left school with no qualifications and ended up trapped in a blue collar job, fitting hydraulic lifts on trucks for decade after decade. Some would say it was a waste of his talent. I would say it was a waste of his joy. He came alive again once he retired. And then we had nearly fifteen years of unrelenting mischief before the Alzheimer’s took hold. Building rockets and forts and fires and dolls houses and rocking horses, watching fast cars and playing pranks and hiding and seeking and laughing and teasing and I loved every single minute of it. Goodbye dad, i had so much fun with you x 💔
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Hannah Fry - 69.9K Likes - Here’s why scientists put a teeny tiny hat on a bird. 

(Also, I absolutely saved the best til last 🦃)

Here are the studies if you want to know more:

A Taste for the Beautiful: Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences for White Crests in Two Species of Australian Grassfinches, by Nancy Tyler Burley and Richard. Symanski (1988). 

An Eye for Detail: Selective Sexual Imprinting in Zebra Finches, by Nancy Tyler Burley (2006)

Stimuli eliciting sexual behaviour, by M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale (1965)

#birds #hats #science #hannahfry

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Caption : Here’s why scientists put a teeny tiny hat on a bird. (Also, I absolutely saved the best til last 🦃) Here are the studies if you want to know more: A Taste for the Beautiful: Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences for White Crests in Two Species of Australian Grassfinches, by Nancy Tyler Burley and Richard. Symanski (1988). An Eye for Detail: Selective Sexual Imprinting in Zebra Finches, by Nancy Tyler Burley (2006) Stimuli eliciting sexual behaviour, by M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale (1965) #birds #hats #science #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 58.2K Likes - Silver lining, the 100m dash is a couple centimetres shorter to run!

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden error that Transformed the World, by Ken Alder (2002)

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Caption : Silver lining, the 100m dash is a couple centimetres shorter to run! The Measure of All Things: The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden error that Transformed the World, by Ken Alder (2002)
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Hannah Fry - 53.3K Likes - @fryrsquared, @kevlin.henney & Simon Singh talk about their favorite equations. Link below

Watch this Unscripted episode „A Fireside Chat with Hannah Fry, Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney“ on GOTO’s YouTube Channel
https://youtu.be/Gfc82MUjxLk

#Viral #HannahFry #SimonSingh #KevlinHenney #NavierStokes #EulersIdentity #Math #Mathematics #MathEquations

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Caption : @fryrsquared, @kevlin.henney & Simon Singh talk about their favorite equations. Link below Watch this Unscripted episode „A Fireside Chat with Hannah Fry, Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney“ on GOTO’s YouTube Channel #Viral #HannahFry #SimonSingh #KevlinHenney #NavierStokes #EulersIdentity #Math #Mathematics #MathEquations
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Hannah Fry - 50.4K Likes - CAVEAT: this graph is based solely on first glance ratings. Once the men and women started actually interacting, the two curves were much more aligned. Really what I think this demonstrates is that the main factor of what women find 'attractive ' isn't necessarily appearance at all

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Caption : CAVEAT: this graph is based solely on first glance ratings. Once the men and women started actually interacting, the two curves were much more aligned. Really what I think this demonstrates is that the main factor of what women find ‘attractive ‘ isn’t necessarily appearance at all
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Hannah Fry - 48.6K Likes - I have actually been using this sentence myself for about three years, and I feel GREAT. And if that's not scientific proof I don't know what is.

Oh. That's right. Actual papers. So here's the paper on lottery winners - its an absolute classic:

Lottery winners and accident victims, Brickman 1978 

And a nice paper on the effect of gratitude:

Counting blessings versus burdens, Emmons and McCullogh 2003

Please do add your favourite papers below.

#happiness #hannahfry #science #psychology

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Caption : I have actually been using this sentence myself for about three years, and I feel GREAT. And if that’s not scientific proof I don’t know what is. Oh. That’s right. Actual papers. So here’s the paper on lottery winners – its an absolute classic: Lottery winners and accident victims, Brickman 1978 And a nice paper on the effect of gratitude: Counting blessings versus burdens, Emmons and McCullogh 2003 Please do add your favourite papers below. #happiness #hannahfry #science #psychology
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Hannah Fry - 48.1K Likes - A double-sided double agent...

Printer Steganography, Reverse Engineering the Machine Identification Code by Peter Buck (2018)

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Caption : A double-sided double agent… Printer Steganography, Reverse Engineering the Machine Identification Code by Peter Buck (2018)
Likes : 48118
Hannah Fry - 46K Likes - It seems that female anatomy has been a mystery for most of history—and arguably still is for many, but that’s a post for another time. 

@fryrsquared perfectly explains it all.

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Caption : It seems that female anatomy has been a mystery for most of history—and arguably still is for many, but that’s a post for another time. @fryrsquared perfectly explains it all.
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Hannah Fry - 41K Likes - This idea for this (admittedly quite heteronormative) study came when the scientist, James Coan, was studying brain function of those suffering from PTSD. 
One war veteran was really struggling with the MRI machine and asked if his wife could be present. When he started getting agitated, his wife held his hand and his brain calmed down.❤️❤️

So it’s not just women who benefit from hand holding sometimes. Even big strong men too. 💪

Here’s the original study: 

Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat. James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson

The replication study:

Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat. 

James A Coan, Lane Beckes, Marlen Z Gonzalez, Erin L Maresh, Casey L Brown, Karen Hasselmo.

And the ice bath hugs study:

Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men. Gesa Berretz, Chantal Cebula, Blanca Maria Wortelmann, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Oliver T. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Julian Packheiser. 

#manvsbear #hugs #romantic #menvswomen #hannahfry

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Caption : This idea for this (admittedly quite heteronormative) study came when the scientist, James Coan, was studying brain function of those suffering from PTSD. One war veteran was really struggling with the MRI machine and asked if his wife could be present. When he started getting agitated, his wife held his hand and his brain calmed down.❤️❤️ So it’s not just women who benefit from hand holding sometimes. Even big strong men too. 💪 Here’s the original study: Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat. James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson The replication study: Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat. James A Coan, Lane Beckes, Marlen Z Gonzalez, Erin L Maresh, Casey L Brown, Karen Hasselmo. And the ice bath hugs study: Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men. Gesa Berretz, Chantal Cebula, Blanca Maria Wortelmann, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Oliver T. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Julian Packheiser. #manvsbear #hugs #romantic #menvswomen #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 40K Likes - Your shower thought for the day: Are numbers actually real? Do they exist outside of human thought?? What precisely IS "twoness"??? 🤯

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Caption : Your shower thought for the day: Are numbers actually real? Do they exist outside of human thought?? What precisely IS “twoness”??? 🤯
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Hannah Fry - 37.7K Likes - The study I'm referring to was 10  years ago now, but it confirmed an even earlier study that had the same result.
Interpretation of diagnostic test results is so important, but SO easily misunderstood, even by those that rely on them most. And even small misunderstandings can have a big impact on our personal medical decisions. 
There is uncertainty in every aspect of medical care, we need to be comfortable with that, but the more informed we all are about what the numbers actually mean (and what they don't), the more empowered our decisions can be.

Medicine's uncomfortable relationship with math: Calculating positive predictive value, by A K Manrai, G Bhatia, J Strymish et al (2014)

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Caption : The study I’m referring to was 10 years ago now, but it confirmed an even earlier study that had the same result. Interpretation of diagnostic test results is so important, but SO easily misunderstood, even by those that rely on them most. And even small misunderstandings can have a big impact on our personal medical decisions. There is uncertainty in every aspect of medical care, we need to be comfortable with that, but the more informed we all are about what the numbers actually mean (and what they don’t), the more empowered our decisions can be. Medicine’s uncomfortable relationship with math: Calculating positive predictive value, by A K Manrai, G Bhatia, J Strymish et al (2014)
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Hannah Fry - 37.6K Likes - See if you can guess who got themselves an editing software subscription for Christmas? 🎄 

#wrapping #presents #gauss #math

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Caption : See if you can guess who got themselves an editing software subscription for Christmas? 🎄 #wrapping #presents #gauss #math
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Hannah Fry - 37.2K Likes - I would also like to hear from anyone that has also heard of this remedy. If only to satisfy that tiny niggling feeling that my 'good authority' maybe just wanted me to sniff their head....

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Caption : I would also like to hear from anyone that has also heard of this remedy. If only to satisfy that tiny niggling feeling that my ‘good authority’ maybe just wanted me to sniff their head….
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Hannah Fry - 36.4K Likes - We're delighted to welcome Professor Hannah Fry to Cambridge!

Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared will join the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January.
 
Learn more about Hannah's new role at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio.

#HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics #Physics

36.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : We’re delighted to welcome Professor Hannah Fry to Cambridge! Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared will join the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January. Learn more about Hannah’s new role at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio. #HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics #Physics
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Hannah Fry - 35.2K Likes - Introducing Armado the cat. Terrible actor, but very good at being aloof and superior on cue 😻
 
For more information, take a look at these studies:

The quality of being sociable: The influence of human attentional state, population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability, by Kristyn Vitale and Monique Udell (2019)

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication, by T. Humphrey, L. Proops, J. Forman, R. Spooner, and K. McComb (2020)

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Caption : Introducing Armado the cat. Terrible actor, but very good at being aloof and superior on cue 😻 For more information, take a look at these studies: The quality of being sociable: The influence of human attentional state, population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability, by Kristyn Vitale and Monique Udell (2019) The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication, by T. Humphrey, L. Proops, J. Forman, R. Spooner, and K. McComb (2020)
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Hannah Fry - 32.2K Likes - David Hilbert. Thought experiment LEGEND.

In his own (translated) words: David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundation of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933, edited by William Ewald and Wilfried Sieg (2013)

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Caption : David Hilbert. Thought experiment LEGEND. In his own (translated) words: David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundation of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933, edited by William Ewald and Wilfried Sieg (2013)
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Hannah Fry - 30.3K Likes - This is proper science, people!🥄 

Here is the study:

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute, by Megan Lim, Margaret Hellard, and Campbell Aitken (2005).

#disappearing #teaspoons #teatime #science #hannahfry

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Caption : This is proper science, people!🥄 Here is the study: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute, by Megan Lim, Margaret Hellard, and Campbell Aitken (2005). #disappearing #teaspoons #teatime #science #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 30.3K Likes - Maths, yes
Science, yes
Cooking, less than yes
Faking it with editing... flawless

30.3K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Maths, yes Science, yes Cooking, less than yes Faking it with editing… flawless
Likes : 30315
Hannah Fry - 28.5K Likes - I just can't, I just can't. I just can't control my feet 💃🌟

#hannahfry

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Caption : I just can’t, I just can’t. I just can’t control my feet 💃🌟 #hannahfry
Likes : 28454
Hannah Fry - 27.5K Likes - If you're gonna have a motto, might as well make it one worth remembering 🌟

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Caption : If you’re gonna have a motto, might as well make it one worth remembering 🌟
Likes : 27486
Hannah Fry - 27.4K Likes - When I had my hysterectomy, one of my friends made a leaving card for my uterus & addressed it to ‘The womb with a view’🤭

#hannahfry #science #hysterectomy #uterus #womb #patriarchy #feminism

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Caption : When I had my hysterectomy, one of my friends made a leaving card for my uterus & addressed it to ‘The womb with a view’🤭 #hannahfry #science #hysterectomy #uterus #womb #patriarchy #feminism
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Hannah Fry - 26.6K Likes - I couldn't help myself sorry

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Caption : I couldn’t help myself sorry
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Hannah Fry - 26.4K Likes - Merry Christmas and a very happy Gantt Chart 🎄 

#cooking #christmas #lunch #maths #math

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Caption : Merry Christmas and a very happy Gantt Chart 🎄 #cooking #christmas #lunch #maths #math
Likes : 26377
Hannah Fry - 26.2K Likes - A prophecy from the 1950s that came true. 

(Kind of). 

#future #science #prediction #hanmahfry

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Caption : A prophecy from the 1950s that came true. (Kind of). #future #science #prediction #hanmahfry
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Hannah Fry - 25.6K Likes - Apparently "Does the inertia of a body depend on its energy content" has only 611 citations.

Which makes me feel a bit better about some of my papers (looking at you Rate Effects on the Growth of Centres, EJAM, Fry, Smith, 2016)

25.6K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Apparently “Does the inertia of a body depend on its energy content” has only 611 citations. Which makes me feel a bit better about some of my papers (looking at you Rate Effects on the Growth of Centres, EJAM, Fry, Smith, 2016)
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Hannah Fry - 25.5K Likes - Lets see how many there actually are, shall we?

Although tbh I just want someone within a 3 mile radius, knows excel, brings snacks. 

#hannahfry #finance #trustfund #data

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Caption : Lets see how many there actually are, shall we? Although tbh I just want someone within a 3 mile radius, knows excel, brings snacks. #hannahfry #finance #trustfund #data
Likes : 25522
Hannah Fry - 23.6K Likes - Slowly sliding this across the table this New Year's Eve 🎉🥂

Chronic uptake of a probiotic nutritional supplement (AB001) inhibits absorption of ethylalcohol in the intestine tract - results from a randomized double-blind crossover study, by A. Pfutzner, M. Hanna, Y. Andor, D. Sachsenheimer, F. Demircik, T. Wittig and J. de Faire (2022)

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Caption : Slowly sliding this across the table this New Year’s Eve 🎉🥂 Chronic uptake of a probiotic nutritional supplement (AB001) inhibits absorption of ethylalcohol in the intestine tract – results from a randomized double-blind crossover study, by A. Pfutzner, M. Hanna, Y. Andor, D. Sachsenheimer, F. Demircik, T. Wittig and J. de Faire (2022)
Likes : 23598
Hannah Fry - 22.8K Likes - So Groot was actually based on a real life boy elephant seal, huh. 

#nature #seal #fact #science #funny #boys #hannahfry

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Caption : So Groot was actually based on a real life boy elephant seal, huh. #nature #seal #fact #science #funny #boys #hannahfry
Likes : 22763
Hannah Fry - 21.8K Likes - There's something heartwarming about the result—a word that evokes an emotion that is absolutely universal to every human who has ever lived, yet one that can only be experienced by creatures with a biological body. Check out the study: A Minimal Turing Test by John McCoy & Tomer Ullman. And watch out for my video series with @samsunguk on how AI is transforming small businesses. #ad

21.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : There’s something heartwarming about the result—a word that evokes an emotion that is absolutely universal to every human who has ever lived, yet one that can only be experienced by creatures with a biological body. Check out the study: A Minimal Turing Test by John McCoy & Tomer Ullman. And watch out for my video series with @samsunguk on how AI is transforming small businesses. #ad
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Hannah Fry - 21K Likes - Wishing you a holiday that is joyful, jolly, and undefeated 🎄💰

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Caption : Wishing you a holiday that is joyful, jolly, and undefeated 🎄💰
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Hannah Fry - 20.8K Likes - That is 13 microseconds of extra sleep a year. Win.

Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system by Stephen R Meyers and Alberto Malinverno (2018)

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Caption : That is 13 microseconds of extra sleep a year. Win. Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system by Stephen R Meyers and Alberto Malinverno (2018)
Likes : 20810
Hannah Fry - 20.6K Likes - FIRST DAY AT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHOOL
#behindthescenes #secretgenius #S2 #iplayer

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Caption : FIRST DAY AT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHOOL #behindthescenes #secretgenius #S2 #iplayer
Likes : 20648
Hannah Fry - 20.6K Likes - Unfortunately, it's an active volcano - so I have no idea if the recursive status of Vulcan Point still holds.  But who wants to let details get in the way of a good story!?

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Caption : Unfortunately, it’s an active volcano – so I have no idea if the recursive status of Vulcan Point still holds. But who wants to let details get in the way of a good story!?
Likes : 20560
Hannah Fry - 18.8K Likes - Come for the facts, stay for the dancing pigeon impression 🕊

'Superstition' in the pigeon.
Skinner, B. F. (1948)

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Caption : Come for the facts, stay for the dancing pigeon impression 🕊 ‘Superstition’ in the pigeon. Skinner, B. F. (1948)
Likes : 18772
Hannah Fry - 18.7K Likes - So remember how daytime tv shows used to use cringingly literal audio choices? Like someone says they’re a music teacher, so they show shots of their instruments while playing Pianoman, or whatever. 

Anyway, turns out that’s the kind of videos I make now. 🤣

18.7K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : So remember how daytime tv shows used to use cringingly literal audio choices? Like someone says they’re a music teacher, so they show shots of their instruments while playing Pianoman, or whatever. Anyway, turns out that’s the kind of videos I make now. 🤣
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Hannah Fry - 17.5K Likes - I recognise this was unlikely to be the takeaway the researchers were aiming for from this study - and the ability of vervets to use semantic communication is indeed fascinating -  but sometimes you just need a sweet story about baby monkeys to get you through the day.

Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication by R Seyfarth, D Cheney, and Peter Marler (1980)

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Caption : I recognise this was unlikely to be the takeaway the researchers were aiming for from this study – and the ability of vervets to use semantic communication is indeed fascinating – but sometimes you just need a sweet story about baby monkeys to get you through the day. Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication by R Seyfarth, D Cheney, and Peter Marler (1980)
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Hannah Fry - 16.9K Likes - Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us 🧠

And if you’d like to read more: 

Aging and Alzheimer's disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) 

Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study,  D A Snowdon (2003) 

Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)

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Caption : Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us 🧠 And if you’d like to read more: Aging and Alzheimer’s disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (2003) Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
Likes : 16870
Hannah Fry - 16.3K Likes - Like all amazing mistakes this is not the first (and presumably not the last) time this has happened
👀
Mass photokeratitis following ultraviolet light exposure at a nightclub by Michelle Ting, Kamran Saha and Scott Robbie (2016)

Four cases of pediatric photokeratitis present to the emergency department after watching the same theater show by Mehmet Serhat Mangan, Ceyhun Arici, Eray Atalay, Burak Tanyildiz, and Faik Oruçoğlu (2015)

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Caption : Like all amazing mistakes this is not the first (and presumably not the last) time this has happened 👀 Mass photokeratitis following ultraviolet light exposure at a nightclub by Michelle Ting, Kamran Saha and Scott Robbie (2016) Four cases of pediatric photokeratitis present to the emergency department after watching the same theater show by Mehmet Serhat Mangan, Ceyhun Arici, Eray Atalay, Burak Tanyildiz, and Faik Oruçoğlu (2015)
Likes : 16274
Hannah Fry - 16.1K Likes - I'm joining the team at C4 for the general election to run the numbers and stats all the way through the night. 

This is like the nerd version of getting to play in a world cup final, except it's all numbers and grapgs and no one ends up with muddy boots or grass stains 🏆

#swingometer #data #stats #analysis #numbernerd

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Caption : I’m joining the team at C4 for the general election to run the numbers and stats all the way through the night. This is like the nerd version of getting to play in a world cup final, except it’s all numbers and grapgs and no one ends up with muddy boots or grass stains 🏆 #swingometer #data #stats #analysis #numbernerd
Likes : 16133
Hannah Fry - 15.7K Likes - A sneaky Instagram Experiment with.. er.. interesting results(?)

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Caption : A sneaky Instagram Experiment with.. er.. interesting results(?)
Likes : 15734
Hannah Fry - 15.6K Likes - How do you feel about dating apps? @thecheckuppodcast

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Caption : How do you feel about dating apps? @thecheckuppodcast
Likes : 15568
Hannah Fry - 15.5K Likes - Behind the scenes of piglet production 🐽🌾

(Don’t ask me what happened to the colour on this one I was having a bad day 🙈)
#pigs #science #hannahfry #farming

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Caption : Behind the scenes of piglet production 🐽🌾 (Don’t ask me what happened to the colour on this one I was having a bad day 🙈) #pigs #science #hannahfry #farming
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Hannah Fry - 14.8K Likes - There's an amazing experiment where they take people into a room, sit them down and distract them by getting them to listen to some kafka. All the while, the psychologists Achim Schützwohl and Rainer Reisenzein decided to really freak people out, by quickly reconfiguring the exit into a brightly lit green room, unfurnished except for a single red chair with a stranger sitting in it,staring them down. 

Every single participant was surprised. Every single participant said they were surprised. But only one in five people actually pulled the classic 😱😯 face. The vast majority of people had some other expression altogether. 

Of course, some people smile when happy. Of course some happy people smile. But not always. And it's dangerous to pretend that you can predict how an individual is feeling based on the movement of their facial muscles alone. 

There's a brilliant book on this topic that i thoroughly recommend: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. 

#algorithm #hannahfry #hitchcock

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Caption : There’s an amazing experiment where they take people into a room, sit them down and distract them by getting them to listen to some kafka. All the while, the psychologists Achim Schützwohl and Rainer Reisenzein decided to really freak people out, by quickly reconfiguring the exit into a brightly lit green room, unfurnished except for a single red chair with a stranger sitting in it,staring them down. Every single participant was surprised. Every single participant said they were surprised. But only one in five people actually pulled the classic 😱😯 face. The vast majority of people had some other expression altogether. Of course, some people smile when happy. Of course some happy people smile. But not always. And it’s dangerous to pretend that you can predict how an individual is feeling based on the movement of their facial muscles alone. There’s a brilliant book on this topic that i thoroughly recommend: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. #algorithm #hannahfry #hitchcock
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Hannah Fry - 14.2K Likes - I decided a couple of years ago that I wanted to have as many unusual, scary, exciting, interesting experiences possible - and being part of the channel 4 election team definitely counts. 

Thanks to @bella_hignett_styling for the styling and @the.seam.uk for making this unreal green suit of dreams 💚💚 @oj_sang for making me look funnier than i am and to everyone for being so nice and supportive throughout and not noticing how genuinely terrified I was at pronouncing Jeremy Hunt. 

#hannahfry#britaindecides #channel4

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Caption : I decided a couple of years ago that I wanted to have as many unusual, scary, exciting, interesting experiences possible – and being part of the channel 4 election team definitely counts. Thanks to @bella_hignett_styling for the styling and @the.seam.uk for making this unreal green suit of dreams 💚💚 @oj_sang for making me look funnier than i am and to everyone for being so nice and supportive throughout and not noticing how genuinely terrified I was at pronouncing Jeremy Hunt. #hannahfry#britaindecides #channel4
Likes : 14171
Hannah Fry - 14K Likes - Part 1 of a whole week of R-eels on eels 🐍

Such a longstanding mystery, where to start? This is a good one: Breeding places and migrations of the Eel, by J Schmidt (1923)

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Caption : Part 1 of a whole week of R-eels on eels 🐍 Such a longstanding mystery, where to start? This is a good one: Breeding places and migrations of the Eel, by J Schmidt (1923)
Likes : 13979
Hannah Fry - 13K Likes - Some r-eel-y good studies trying to figure out the eel-usive Eel

A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man: Clause, Darwin, and Sigmund Freud's search for the testes of the Eel (1875-1877) by Matthew Perkins-McVey (2022)

Sur la maturation complete des organes genitaux de l'anguille male et l'emission spontanee by M Fontaine (1936)

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Caption : Some r-eel-y good studies trying to figure out the eel-usive Eel A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man: Clause, Darwin, and Sigmund Freud’s search for the testes of the Eel (1875-1877) by Matthew Perkins-McVey (2022) Sur la maturation complete des organes genitaux de l’anguille male et l’emission spontanee by M Fontaine (1936)
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Hannah Fry - 12.4K Likes - You can read Skinner's own recollections of 'Project Pigeon' or as he describes it: "a crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the tracks intellectually speaking..."

Pigeons in a pelican, by B.F. Skinner (1960)

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Caption : You can read Skinner’s own recollections of ‘Project Pigeon’ or as he describes it: “a crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the tracks intellectually speaking…” Pigeons in a pelican, by B.F. Skinner (1960)
Likes : 12412
Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️

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Caption : One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
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Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️

11.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
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Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️

11.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
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Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️

11.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Likes : 11824
Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱

✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to 
✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen
✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed)
✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ 
✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️

11.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
Likes : 11824
Hannah Fry - 11.8K Likes - Who knew passports could be this pretty?! @fryrsquared #SecretGeniusOfModernLife #iPlayer #Passports #Travel

11.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Who knew passports could be this pretty?! @fryrsquared #SecretGeniusOfModernLife #iPlayer #Passports #Travel
Likes : 11795
Hannah Fry - 11.7K Likes - 📐 Mathematicians, what's the best piece of advice you've received?

Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared joined the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January.

Learn more about Hannah's new role at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio.

#HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics

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Caption : 📐 Mathematicians, what’s the best piece of advice you’ve received? Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, @fryrsquared joined the University of Cambridge as the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics on 1 January. Learn more about Hannah’s new role at Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics @mathematics.at.cambridge, which was announced at the @isaacnewtoninstitute, through the link in our bio. #HannahFry #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge #Cambridge #Maths #Mathematics
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Hannah Fry - 11.6K Likes - Back hosting have I got news for you tonight - and I took exactly zero pictures this time. So you’ll have to make do with the actual show itself, tonight 9pm, BBC1. 

Enjoy! 🌟🌟

Ps I’ve been using one of them lash serums and I’m pleased to say the non stop three months of itchy eyelids has totally paid off. Causing a hurricane in the South Pacific now every time I blink 💅🏻

#hannahfry

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Caption : Back hosting have I got news for you tonight – and I took exactly zero pictures this time. So you’ll have to make do with the actual show itself, tonight 9pm, BBC1. Enjoy! 🌟🌟 Ps I’ve been using one of them lash serums and I’m pleased to say the non stop three months of itchy eyelids has totally paid off. Causing a hurricane in the South Pacific now every time I blink 💅🏻 #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 11.2K Likes - Can maths be fun? 

Professor Hannah Fry explains how she gets her daughters to engage in and enjoy mathematical thinking.

The Today Programme | Catch Up on BBC Sounds

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Caption : Can maths be fun? Professor Hannah Fry explains how she gets her daughters to engage in and enjoy mathematical thinking. The Today Programme | Catch Up on BBC Sounds
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Hannah Fry - 11.2K Likes - P.S. fruit flies don’t spontaneously spawn from a lonely banana. (they sneak through cracks in your window).

If you want to know more about spontaneous generation, you can try:
Things Come to Life by Henry Harris (I haven’t actually read it though - so don’t blame me if it’s bad)

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Caption : P.S. fruit flies don’t spontaneously spawn from a lonely banana. (they sneak through cracks in your window). If you want to know more about spontaneous generation, you can try: Things Come to Life by Henry Harris (I haven’t actually read it though – so don’t blame me if it’s bad)
Likes : 11214
Hannah Fry - 11.1K Likes - I will never stop trying to make 'Shark Potatoes' happen

A nice assessment of where we currently stand: Research Status of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Collection Technology, by B Liu, X Wang, X Zhang, J Liu, L Rong, and W Ma (2024)

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Caption : I will never stop trying to make ‘Shark Potatoes’ happen A nice assessment of where we currently stand: Research Status of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Collection Technology, by B Liu, X Wang, X Zhang, J Liu, L Rong, and W Ma (2024)
Likes : 11094
Hannah Fry - 11K Likes - Finally some truths are rev-eel-ed! It's been an 'elver journey. 

First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea, by R.M. Wright, A.T. Piper, K Aarestrup, J.M.N. Azevedo, G Cowan, A Don, M Gollock, S Rodriguez Ramallo, R Velterop, A Walker, H Westerberg and D Righton (2022)

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Caption : Finally some truths are rev-eel-ed! It’s been an ‘elver journey. First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea, by R.M. Wright, A.T. Piper, K Aarestrup, J.M.N. Azevedo, G Cowan, A Don, M Gollock, S Rodriguez Ramallo, R Velterop, A Walker, H Westerberg and D Righton (2022)
Likes : 11039
Hannah Fry - 11K Likes - I like to describe my natural skin tone as 'white with a hint of blue' 💙 

#accidentaldiscovery #hannahfry #invention #faketan #redhair

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Caption : I like to describe my natural skin tone as ‘white with a hint of blue’ 💙 #accidentaldiscovery #hannahfry #invention #faketan #redhair
Likes : 11017
Hannah Fry - 11K Likes - Important to add, seeing as I'm from Harlow, this is actually my native tongue 💅🏻

#essexgirl #hannahfry

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Caption : Important to add, seeing as I’m from Harlow, this is actually my native tongue 💅🏻 #essexgirl #hannahfry
Likes : 10985
Hannah Fry - 10.4K Likes - The chances of having a baby boy or a girl subtly change depending on when in the cycle you conceive*

AND IT TURNS OUT THE SAME IS TRUE FOR COWS 🐄 

#data #math #maths #farming #fitbit #babies #meme #cowsofinstagram #science #animals #farmer

* the theories for why this might be the case revolve around the subtle hormone and acidity changes in the female at different times in the cycle favouring certain sperm over others.

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Caption : The chances of having a baby boy or a girl subtly change depending on when in the cycle you conceive* AND IT TURNS OUT THE SAME IS TRUE FOR COWS 🐄 #data #math #maths #farming #fitbit #babies #meme #cowsofinstagram #science #animals #farmer * the theories for why this might be the case revolve around the subtle hormone and acidity changes in the female at different times in the cycle favouring certain sperm over others.
Likes : 10359
Hannah Fry - 10.4K Likes - Didn’t your mum ever tell you not to put shoes on the table? 

#hack #math #maths #hannahfry

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Caption : Didn’t your mum ever tell you not to put shoes on the table? #hack #math #maths #hannahfry
Likes : 10356
Hannah Fry - 10.1K Likes - My sisters think they’re sooooo funny. 

#sisters #secretsanta

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Caption : My sisters think they’re sooooo funny. #sisters #secretsanta
Likes : 10093
Hannah Fry - 10K Likes - Honestly, tracking an eel is quite the ord-eel. 

New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis, by Y.K. Change, E Feunteun, Y Miyazawa and K Tsukamoto (2020)

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Caption : Honestly, tracking an eel is quite the ord-eel. New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis, by Y.K. Change, E Feunteun, Y Miyazawa and K Tsukamoto (2020)
Likes : 10022
Hannah Fry - 10K Likes - 📖

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Caption : 📖
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Hannah Fry - 9.4K Likes - Have I just spent tens of thousands to be involved in an elaborate tech bro joke? 🫠

9.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Have I just spent tens of thousands to be involved in an elaborate tech bro joke? 🫠
Likes : 9445
Hannah Fry - 9.4K Likes - Rumours are once you boot it up it’s still running Windows XP. 

#imjoking! #quantum #quantumcomputing #thefuture #hannahfry

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Caption : Rumours are once you boot it up it’s still running Windows XP. #imjoking! #quantum #quantumcomputing #thefuture #hannahfry
Likes : 9370
Hannah Fry - 9K Likes - I recently discovered that Americans don't have the word FAFF.
What on earth are you supposed to use instead!?

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Caption : I recently discovered that Americans don’t have the word FAFF. What on earth are you supposed to use instead!?
Likes : 8990
Hannah Fry - 9K Likes - Tonight’s the night back on @bbctwo at 8pm for brand new series of The Secret Genius of Modern Life starting with a look at the passport. Watch live or catch up via link in bio #secretgenius #bbctwo

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Caption : Tonight’s the night back on @bbctwo at 8pm for brand new series of The Secret Genius of Modern Life starting with a look at the passport. Watch live or catch up via link in bio #secretgenius #bbctwo
Likes : 8954
Hannah Fry - 8.7K Likes - Planning on using this for my origin story when I eventually become Mayor of London

Hosting @haveigotnews tonight at 9pm, bbc1 and then iPlayer soon after

#comedy #bbc #haveigotnewsforyou #trending

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Caption : Planning on using this for my origin story when I eventually become Mayor of London Hosting @haveigotnews tonight at 9pm, bbc1 and then iPlayer soon after #comedy #bbc #haveigotnewsforyou #trending
Likes : 8662
Hannah Fry - 8.4K Likes - Part 2

Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us about dementia. 🧠

And if you’d like to read more: 

Aging and Alzheimer's disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) 

Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study,  D A Snowdon (2003) 

Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)

8.4K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Part 2 Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us about dementia. 🧠 And if you’d like to read more: Aging and Alzheimer’s disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (2003) Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
Likes : 8369
Hannah Fry - 8.3K Likes - Yes, okay if you really want to be a stickler about it, i’ll admit. The particle physicists probably overall had a slightly bigger impact on the outcome of ww2.. 💣 But im still taking this as a win for the mathmos. 🪖

EDIT: You'll notice the audio is a bit off in this one - my apologies. It's because, even though your girl can do second order partial differential equations with her eyes closed, she apparently doesn't know the difference between stereo and mono audio channels when it comes to editing videos. It will never happen again I promise. 🙏

Read more about the German Tank Problem and its clever mathematical trick here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10274-6 A Bayesian Treatment of the German Tank Problem, by Cory Simon (2023)

#ww2 #panzers #math #mathematician #hannahfry

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Caption : Yes, okay if you really want to be a stickler about it, i’ll admit. The particle physicists probably overall had a slightly bigger impact on the outcome of ww2.. 💣 But im still taking this as a win for the mathmos. 🪖 EDIT: You’ll notice the audio is a bit off in this one – my apologies. It’s because, even though your girl can do second order partial differential equations with her eyes closed, she apparently doesn’t know the difference between stereo and mono audio channels when it comes to editing videos. It will never happen again I promise. 🙏 Read more about the German Tank Problem and its clever mathematical trick here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10274-6 A Bayesian Treatment of the German Tank Problem, by Cory Simon (2023) #ww2 #panzers #math #mathematician #hannahfry
Likes : 8301
Hannah Fry - 8.2K Likes - What are the chances of a coincidence? Here are three questions you can ask yourself. (Cos often things are much less coincidental than they look)

Here’s a lovely little book on the topic if you want to read more: The Improbability Principle - by David Hand

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Caption : What are the chances of a coincidence? Here are three questions you can ask yourself. (Cos often things are much less coincidental than they look) Here’s a lovely little book on the topic if you want to read more: The Improbability Principle – by David Hand
Likes : 8164
Hannah Fry - 7.8K Likes - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.

7.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕 Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast. Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
Likes : 7798
Hannah Fry - 7.8K Likes - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.

7.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕 Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast. Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
Likes : 7798
Hannah Fry - 7.8K Likes - Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕

Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 

Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. 

Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast.

Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.

7.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Here I am being an ABSOLUTE HUSSY in a photo shoot for a cover piece in the @dailymail that came out yesterday. 🥰💕 Only took a team of four about six hours to achieve. 💅🏻 Might keep the feather cuffs tho. Aren’t they quite the thing. Hair and makeup by the brilliant @desmondino styling and feather boas by the incredibly talented @dinahvantulleken and photos by the fantastic @lezliandrose. Thanks guys, I had such a blast. Secret Genius continues on BBC2 this Thursday at 8pm.
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Hannah Fry - 7.8K Likes - Imagine deciding you want to sail a ship full of frozen water to a part of the world that has NEVER SEEN ICE 🧊 

If you want to know more, here are some books you might like: 

Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson (2003)

The American Ice Harvests: An Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918 by Richard
O. Cummings (1949)

#iceking #caribbean #historical #hannahfry

7.8K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Imagine deciding you want to sail a ship full of frozen water to a part of the world that has NEVER SEEN ICE 🧊 If you want to know more, here are some books you might like: Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson (2003) The American Ice Harvests: An Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918 by Richard O. Cummings (1949) #iceking #caribbean #historical #hannahfry
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Hannah Fry - 7.7K Likes - Rumours are there’s a Brian Cox wig that runners wear to do his walking shots when he’s not around 💅🏻

#secretgenius #behindthescenes

7.7K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Rumours are there’s a Brian Cox wig that runners wear to do his walking shots when he’s not around 💅🏻 #secretgenius #behindthescenes
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Hannah Fry - 7.6K Likes - Deep voice privilege

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Caption : Deep voice privilege
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Hannah Fry - 7.6K Likes - Big news, people. HUGE. 
 
Curious cases is coming back! This time, sadly, without my long-time partner in crime @adamdavidrutherford 

But, after careful consideration, we decided the show needed to be 💯% more irish, and so @thedaraobriain and I taking on your questions from September 🍀

You'll be pleased to learn he's a much more enthusiastic co-host than he is a memer

7.6K Likes – Hannah Fry Instagram

Caption : Big news, people. HUGE. Curious cases is coming back! This time, sadly, without my long-time partner in crime @adamdavidrutherford But, after careful consideration, we decided the show needed to be 💯% more irish, and so @thedaraobriain and I taking on your questions from September 🍀 You’ll be pleased to learn he’s a much more enthusiastic co-host than he is a memer
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Hannah Fry - 7K Likes - When researcher, Eric Cadora, decided to map the prison population of New York he made a surprising discovery.

Uncharted with Hannah Fry | Listen on BBC Sounds

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Caption : When researcher, Eric Cadora, decided to map the prison population of New York he made a surprising discovery. Uncharted with Hannah Fry | Listen on BBC Sounds
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