Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry Tells Us What To Expect From 2021 And Beyond | The Last Leg

[@adzthesaint]

God, her voice is just hypnotic. How is that a thing??

[@adamsalt9554]

How good is it to listen to intelligent people talk.

[@urmaisgay6495]

people? 😄

[@elliotttalksf1825]

Why where are they? 😄

[@chimarleywai]

By saying they are intelligent you imply that you also are intelligent by association. I only think people are smart when I don’t comprehend them.

[@adamsalt9554]

@@chimarleywai Whatever sunshine.

[@kanedaku]

Incorrect, unless you think by having intelligence automatically means they're correct. That shows us about you.

[@thegeorgew1993]

This fantastic mathematician taught me at university. An inspiration.

[@KuyVonBraun]

I bet her courses are oversubscribed...for some reason 😉

[@wongawonga1000]

You're lucky. My lecturers at uni had about as much charisma as a piece of toilet paper. This is ironic since much of the material they presented was difficult to absorb and it certainly didn't rub off on us.

[@thegeorgew1993]

@@wongawonga1000 sorry to hear that. I would have to say that my broader experience with most of my lecturers was broadly similar, save for some Hannah Fry vim and insight

[@thegeorgew1993]

@@KuyVonBraun she has got a certain allure, it can’t be denied!

[@1stSilence]

Oh, if only i had Hannah as a teacher. My life would have gone differently. Lucky guy.

[@robawr]

Hannah Fry, absolutely lovely person.

[@EarthwormShandy]

Fit too

[@leannejay]

@@EarthwormShandy Hopefully you're taking about her personality and intelligence when you say that.

[@balasuar]

Dr. Hannah Fry.

[@robawr]

@@balasuar In the same way I don't use everyone else's titles, I'm not going to say Dr every time I refer to her. Her own website starts "Hannah Fry is...".

[@AndrewB383]

@@leannejay Either meaning would apply, she seems kind, obviously intelligent, and she's staggeringly good looking. Takes nothing away from her as a person to find her attractive, and admiring her as a person adds to her attractiveness.

[@EvevanKaat]

I recommend 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry' for people who'd like to hear more of this lovely lady :)

[@jaspreetsingh7283]

That's an excellent podcast

[@michaelh13]

Seconded

[@katiikN]

one of my favourite podcasts!

[@goyasolidar]

Her voice is like smooth butter on my toast ears.

[@annmariebuscema6506]

Hannah Fry superb guest

[@punkboi2688]

I mean hearing her speak I feel less like the world is collapsing around me while I'm powerless to make any substantial change...so...cheers last leg. Needed this one

[@carriageofnoreturn.1881]

You might like her podcast on the BBC - Rutherford and Fry.

[@jamesl8640]

We should have more maths people on this show. Hannah Fry, James Grime, Matt Parker, . . . This will help.

[@stocktonjoans]

have you seen the stuff the Festival of the Spoken Nerd did on QI?

[@jamesl8640]

@@stocktonjoans yes

[@CycolacFan]

Please have Dr Hannah on more and next time as a proper guest. Articulate, composed, intelligent and witty enough to hold her own with professional comedians.

[@ronoc627]

Her voice is so reassuring 😊

[@brook316]

"I think people will politely wear masks when they have a cold." Someone underestimates the selfishness of the British population.

[@OriginalPiMan]

There will be people who will. Maybe many won't, but some will.

[@klaxoncow]

She kind of contradicts herself there. Because she was saying how - the last time, with the Spanish Flu - the streets were deserted and folks were wearing masks, yet they then went on a big bender of building places to squash as many people together as possible, and have loads of sex... and, like, people did not hold onto wearing masks out of politeness from back then, did they? They wear masks in Asia, as their culture has some notion of "there is a society" and social responsibilities. But we in the West are Thatcher's "There is no society" children, always out for our own personal freedoms. (Obviously, I'm talking collectively and culturally. This is not to disparage any specific individual, who might well be really good at recycling and runs the local youth club, for the sake of future generations. But, overall, we're all self-absorbed tossers... and you know I speak the truth there.)

[@ellmarf7256]

@@klaxoncow I think she was talking about after the 1918 pandemic not during. Also masks have become a sort of fashion statement similar to in Asia after SARS and some people, to feel comfortable and out of politeness when they are sick are likely to wear masks not everyone. I’m sure we will revert back to normality but who knows.

[@MrAlRats]

Nobody is going to wear masks for other people's sake when things go back to normal. The only people wearing masks will be those who adopt it as a fashion statement or those who have gotten more comfortable wearing it in public for their own sake. Two years from now, masks will be a very rare sight outside far-east Asia.

[@ginge641]

Bruh being polite to not piss off random assholes is a fundamental part of th British identity. Shit'll definitely catch on.

[@definatelynotbee]

There is something very reassuring hearing someone explain what is going to happen in the future with calm confidence.

[@Odo-so8pj]

They know that's why they provide these people to you.

[@jamesallen4050]

😂 Not seen this before, but the first event I have been to in two years was last weekend. My family and I were happily squished in with others to see Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford!

[@JailTheCorruptGovernment]

A truly wonderful and brave lady. I really hope you get well xx

[@justinmcleod141]

She's an absolute delight.

[@CrashSable]

Until she starts telling Germans that they all need to be tracked and controlled.

[@andrewjameshenderson1389]

Hannah Fry is a delight; so bright and beautiful! Merci!

[@dale4039]

Hannah Fry is painfully gorgeous

[@adrianashby1033]

She MUST be in a regular section every 6 months called 'Don't panic, but...'

[@scottkids1135]

every month

[@imaweerascal]

Hannah Fry is just wonderful - she's a regular guest on Lauren Laverne's show on BBC R6Music if you want more of her dulcet tones!

[@montydunn8705]

As lovely as Hannah Fry is, why is this segment set up as if she's an oracle telling us the future?

[@manueldg5177]

It Is science

[@thetessellater9163]

She's telling us the current realities in advanced sciences, what is being done now, but will pervade the rest of us plebs in the future; less oracle, more reporting.

[@mLawless1090]

Because this program is hosted by morons. Seeing a display of intelligence such as this is incredibly rare.

[@mistermack4987]

@JC de Frontenac By context I guess "real doctor" means physician right? Don't tell the people that invent seatbelts, aircrafts, and vaccinations that keep bacon from killing you that they aren't "real doctors". They are pretty committed to the lie

[@ukbigjon]

She is a mathematician who looks at statistical trends. So her prediction are a scientific evaluation based on statistical evidence drawn from historical data, current data, scientific data etc. She doesn't give definitives; she gives informed conclusions. Why are people so butthurt and fragile about intelligent people giving information and informed opinion?

[@mariacarter6954]

I'd vote for her to run this mess of a Country 😆

[@robertelessar]

She's too intelligent to want to try, I suspect.

[@klaxoncow]

@@robertelessar Ah, yes. The old problem. Anyone with enough brains to run the country well is way too intelligent to ever want the job in the first place. As they've worked out that if "with great power comes great responsibility" then having "absolute power" over a country and everyone in it, comes with "absolute responsibility" for every fucked up thing that ever happens to anyone and everyone. Wars, taxes, educational policy, the trains running on time, the unemployment rate, Mrs.Smith's bin collection, the potholes on Station Road. ALL of it is your fault. Every little last bit of it is your personal fuck up. Even when you try to privatise it off, then it's still your fault anyway when they fuck up, as it was clearly your fault for not regulating the industry properly. And all our smartest cookies have already walked out the door, pretending they're not listening, before I finished that last paragraph. They've already worked out that this is an impossible "job description" that no-one could ever fill, much less do well and legged it out of the door, long before anyone's even looked in their direction. It's kind of the Big Lie of democracy. The idea that if only we selected the right people to lead the country, then everything would be fine. And we keep believing this, despite the fact that absolutely no-one, of any political stripe, has ever done a good job of it, in all of human history. What's that definition of madness again? To keep doing the same thing repeatedly, somehow expecting different results? So, yeah, we end up with arrogant, narcissistic, power-hungry morons - who have no idea what the price of milk is - because only someone so horridly self-absorbed and ignorant as that would be so dense as not to realise that this is the worst job in the whole universe, to have not ran away already. Only someone with no concept of "responsibility" whatsoever would take on the job, as if they had any useful sense of that concept, they'd realise the whole thing is impossible and have been saying "no, no, no, not me. Find someone else", as they ran off into the distance.

[@ze_rubenator]

Please, what has she one to deserve such heinous punishment?

[@heatherleys]

Is there something in the surname because Stephen Fry is a vault of knowledge as well!! She's amazing!

[@lewilewis3944]

Apparently it's the surname given to people that started the first chippies back in medieval times. Fish is definitely a brain food, just a shame that they didn't have spuds yet. This is a fact.

[@AlanHope2013]

@@lewilewis3944 That's the reason why Mr Chips had a very limited career in education. His family just didn't have the background.

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

@@lewilewis3944 Shame about the spuds in medieval times but things can only get batter.

[@thetessellater9163]

From Norse, via Old English, the name originally given to smaller people.

[@thetessellater9163]

@@lewilewis3944 - Not !!!

[@ra1derplays]

her metaphor " when the weather starts turning " is better than all boris' put together

[@richardowen5321]

To be fair, it's not difficult to beat Boris's rhetoric.

[@WilliamAndrea]

is it a metaphor? warm weather reduces virus transmission

[@richardowen5321]

@@WilliamAndrea I believe it is; the seasons turn figuratively, not literally.

[@AlaiMacErc]

@@WilliamAndrea It is -- there's no literal "turn" of weather involved -- but it's a pretty standard BrEng construction. Brilliant and witty and all and Professor Fry is, it's not her own coinage!

[@opulent_bedbug]

Where the hell has Dr Hannah been hiding? More please.

[@pieperkie]

Check out Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry. It's brilliant

[@Phoenix-nl2ut]

Wish usa chat shows was like this. Hannah explained things so well and that British accent just put me over the top.

[@MrJayehawk]

It's lovely of her to think the idea of wearing masks when you have a cold or cough as a courtesy to those around you is here to stay. I don't think a large amount of the western world is that courteous, quite frankly. People tend to only be concerned about what affects them directly and often don't give a shit about others, especially strangers. I'd like to be wrong about that, but experience tells me I'm not.

[@urmaisgay6495]

the west is individualistic, its populace cares more for what they can get from a given situation; the east is communal, its populace does whats best for those around them, regardless of what they want from life. so youre probably right there.

[@2eleven48]

Regrettable as it is to say, but I agree that when the moment presents itself to remove masks the quicker they will end up in landfill. It is already evident that there is a growing ground-swell of those who reject masks for whatever agenda they follow. Robert, UK.

[@DrZaius3141]

I think she failed to add that this is going to be a cultural thing. There will be people that keep on wearing masks and there will be those that drop them as soon (or rather even before) they don't have to wear them anymore.

[@thegeniusofthecrowd354]

Thanks officer!

[@Nick-xc4fy]

Hannah Fry is basically my dream woman...

[@paulegerton1583]

I want Dr Fry to be the one to tell me I am dying. Her voice will make it seem ok and nothing to worry about. I think the BBC pandemic documentary is still available an iPlayer. She is awesome 😍

[@pauljamison3340]

New meaning to the second hand shop!!!

[@Medoway]

Love Dr Fry and love the fact that loads more people are being exposed to her awesomeness thanks to the last leg!

[@thejesusaurus6573]

Does everyone not know her already?!

[@scirarocco]

Absolutely stunning discussion, such eloquent responses to the questions!

[@kiriakoz]

I think she's making half this stuff up, but it's still interesting to listen to.

[@adcatman]

Very clever Lady.... Great respect for her.

[@reubenm.d.5218]

Thank goodness for scientists

[@stvp68]

People want to squish together. Reminds me of Kierkegaard’s comments about how people prefer crowds.

[@censusgary]

The problem with flying cars is that they’d turn all the bad drivers out there into bad pilots. Cars would fall on your house all the time.

[@tangoz811]

Josh is seriously phishing for the next big stock

[@danellis-jones1591]

Hannah Fry is amazing in every single respect. But her intelligence is unquestioned

[@DotBone89]

YOU REALLY DON'T WANT FLYING CARS. PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE TWO DIMENSIONS!

[@Richard_Jones]

I'm guessing they'd be 'driverless' flying cars because of that. Though, as far as I'm concerned they'd also be passengerless cars.

[@BeauwithaBang]

It's kinda sad to watch this in Dec 2021 and know that we haven't come along nearly as much as we'd like.

[@garethwilliams5809]

I love this lady

What a year she had ahead of her.

[@KeepItSimpleSailor]

Talking about the glove - I could see Wolowitz from The Big Bang and his robotic hand episode

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

Love this episode, I think this is the first time I’ve seen more than 2 women on this show at a time

[@balasuar]

Dr Fry: this time next year we’ll be able to go back to the pub and have a pint proper. Delta Variant: hold my pint.

[@adrianaspalinky1986]

Love Hannah Fry 😊 love Last leg

[@vizpop18]

The Roaring 20s, i like the sound of that.

[@bowdencable7094]

This was a Heinelein novel plot. The hands were called Waldos. And you could make them massively large or microscopic.

[@KhronicD]

And they've been in use for decades already. Mainly in labs and such where people work with extremely dangerous materials.

[@eddiemetalblood1]

she's the coolest!

[@heavyweaponsguy21]

Come to Fort Straya!

[@Fail460]

Really interesting!

[@puirYorick]

Flying cars will perpetually be just over the time horizon.

[@robertelessar]

And time machines will perpetually be just over the physical horizon.

[@nrellis666]

"I think some things will be out of our reach forever!" ROFL

[@Coyotecyb]

yeah, I'm never leaving the house without a mask again.

[@apelementalityqp]

Shes on point

[@philpalmer8044]

God she is gorgeous. A voice that could melt your ballbag.

[@dogstar7925]

noooo there's a music gig on my birthday this year i can't wait a year (but will if i have to i ain't an antimasker or any such)

[@Loncouverite]

Good prediction…..

[@makisxatzimixas2372]

I don't think people understand who technology works. I've been told an idea is 5% of the whole deal. So just because a technology exists, it doesn't make it instantly marketable.

[@jackoghost]

2021 gonna suck too, got it

[@n0body550]

Wheres rutherford?

[@lewilewis3944]

What is it about smart women that makes them so hot ?! My celebrity crushes are Anna Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Mariella Frostrup and Lucy Worsley, all very different, but all funny and sharp. I can dream, can't I ?!

[@andrewjameshenderson1389]

Lewi Lewis, i know exactly what you mean!

[@dkjenvey1787]

The fact that they're attractive women? Take the intelligence away and they're still attractive. It's physical.

[@AlanHope2013]

Are you on a comment thread about Hannah Fry calling her Anna? She's your celebrity crush but you don't know her name, even when it's plastered all over the comments? I wouldn't go putting your intelligence up against any of those smart women if I were you, Louie.

[@boredincan]

Not Rachel Riley?

[@krashd]

Throw in Dr Alice Roberts and Suzannah Lipscomb for me.

[@kanedaku]

Maths Vs Biology. Doesn't matter how fit you are, you cannot argue that maths will out rule natural biology.

[@DarthArachnious]

There's a warehouse in the Mojave Desert full of "UFO's". They're prototypes for flying cars that have crashed over the years. I've seen the videos of the flying suits from the early 1900's. I would love to see the videos on these monstrosities.

[@gkw9882]

2:52 The meaning of what? Couldn't understand that .. coffee something??

[@wich1]

Covfefe

[@gkw9882]

@@wich1 Thanks, I googled it, to find it's just a Trumpism.

[@asadkhan-qm1my]

Was she a runner up in the countdown selection process

[@InsidiousDr9]

Classic mistake of looking at patterns of coloration vs causation. The Spanish flu had an impact, millions died - but the roaring twenties were a result of the end of the great war, and the culmination of the advances from the industrial revolution. People now had cars and more wealth - those two factors changed cities and how people lived dramatically.

[@ReflectYouz]

If this lasts another year there wont be any pubs and restaurants left. They will all go under

[@meatrace]

God I love her.

[@timothywalsh1001]

I'd love simply to be able to use my left hand.

[@nigelbenn4642]

She's well off the mark, this was Jan 2021 so in 3 months time eveything will be back to pre covid? Please. If this lady is so good at predicting future events, tell us the next 5 major events of 2022-2023 Baba Vanga. Odd how the predicting parts is vague like STD increase (young people fucking who could predict that).

[@thedolphin5428]

Hmmm, people who say things were predictable, expected, likely etc in advance are (a) justifying a previous belief in hindsight and (b) only saying that THEIR possible scenarios came true. 50% of others were predicting the opposite. So neither were actually prescient. Both were likely. No social scientist can possibly foresee all possible circumstances of eventual outcome.

[@edwardbates2562]

Intelligence and red hair. She could teach me Maths all day long. Or Math if you are an American reading this comment.

[@Drones_and_more]

I would love a dinner date with this lady and Dr Brian Cox,.

[@CycolacFan]

Me too, but I’d get completely outclassed in the conversation somewhere around the time we were deciding what starter to order and become merely a fascinated audience member.

[@sheryld1957]

Trumps insanity was slow to other countries, but here in the states we knew it and have been living in fear since he unbelievably was elected

[@chinboy66]

Nope. The rest of the world knew.

[@barryfarrant3281]

Its professor Fry by the way. bcf

[@lewiskingmodelmaking9514]

After only hearing Dr Hannah Fry on radio and podcasts, its SO WEIRD to put a face to the voice

[@qwertyTRiG]

Here she is on a quiz show: kzbin.info/aero/PL96C35uN7xGLZj-FTNfZYmo3uv6-MJ0D-

[@qwertyTRiG]

Sorry. Mixed up with the Arney sisters.

[@tomellis8275]

For me, having only seen her in youtube content, it was weird suddenly seeing her on TV.

[@tomellis8275]

She's got some good TED/RI talks and similar on youtube, plus there's a number of guest spots with her on some good maths channels like numberphile and standup maths.

[@robawr]

I've met her so it's weird seeing her on tv, I've mostly read her work more than anything.

[@jamesben1]

😍

[@mitchellhogg4627]

"next time"?......

[@do_wygt_do]

Hannah Fry, the ginger Nigella

[@kennethshields6939]

This show hasn't got a leg to stand on "get it hills".

[@shifttheshaman]

Dr. Fry is overqualified for this and, indeed, government.

[@MaquiladoraIII]

To be fair, Joey Essex is overqualified for our government.

[@tim01263]

I wish Sue Perkins would be less exaggerated constantly.

[@GuanoLad]

If you break down what a flying car is, and what we expect from them, you can see why they won't ever happen. We already have helicopters, and they're heavy, ungainly, require expertise to operate, and are just not convenient. And that's sadly the best we'll ever get from personal flying vehicles. A nice idea that just isn't practical.

[@Azzkicker12345]

Don’t wear the “Billy Joel gloves” while driving!

[@Doug_Hannon]

This was very fun, but that Internet of Touch Glove is some Popular Science nonsense right up there with food pills, flying cars and space elevators that futurist like to keep going on about but won't happen within our lifetimes, let along the next couple years.

[@mhl8396]

They have the opportunity to speak to a very intelligent lady, and they keep throwing cheap quips and making it all about them. Shame

[@klaxoncow]

Flying cars? Yeah, those already exist. They're called "helicopters". And, like, we call the flying buses "planes". And if you're thinking "but those are expensive and impractical" and you've got to do things like log flight plans with air traffic control and have all those flight hours to qualify as a pilot and do you know how much jet fuel costs? Then, yeah, exactly, and why would you think that the invention of "anti-gravity engines" would somehow make this any cheaper and more affordable for everyone, use less energy (remember, Doc Brown was using nuclear fusion to power his flying DeLorean) and excuse anyone the admin of fully qualifying as a pilot and having to log your flight plans with ATC? Imagine. An event like 9/11 could be caused accidentally by a drunk or distracted flying car driver - someone texting on their phone while flying, not seeing the skyscraper in their way - and imagine the carnage of flying cars raining down over heavily populated areas, when they crash into each other or someone forgets to put enough fuel into their flying car. Imagine the little old lady, taking off from the flying car park outside her local Tesco, going straight up into the flow of flying traffic - as her spatial awareness was not the greatest when she was down on the ground in two dimensions, before they added this pesky extra dimension, where you've also got to be aware of what's above and below you too. Oh, and we know of absolutely no instance in our observations of the whole universe, where gravity doesn't always apply and that it's always, every single time, an attractive force. So add onto the expense and impracticality - and the air traffic control nightmare - the fact that "anti-gravity" might simply be physically impossible anyway - and, seriously, how much energy do you think something like that would need to run? Clue: E=mc^2. You're bending the very fabric of spacetime here to counteract its curvature and twist it in the other direction. Why would you think that would be energy-cheap and you could power it on a gallon of petrol? And, oh man, can you imagine an "anti-gravity engine" on the blink - needs to go to the garage for a tune up - that starts playing up and ends up spaghettifying the passengers, as it increases the gravity at their feet, while sending their heads off into the stratosphere at 100mph. Trust me, scientists will work out how to teleport people - quantum physicists at least have an idea of how they might do that, but "anti-gravity" is still in the "haven't got the slightest clue how that would ever work" category - before any of this will seem feasible... and, in terms of cost, you're better off just owning your own private jet. Does mostly the same job, without requiring the energy requirements of several nuclear bombs, just to take off from the Sainsbury's car park with your weekly shopping and lottery scratchcards. Some things in sci-fi are likely and possible - like we all ended up with the equivalent of Captain Kirk's "communicator" in the mobile phones in our pockets - and some things are, frankly, on the scientific side, complete fantasy. So, yeah, put "flying anti-gravity cars" in the same mental category as you put the "Jedi powers" of the space wizards in Star Wars. Those sort of things are definitely more "fi" than "sci", if you see what I'm saying.

[@markgreen5153]

Is Dr Hannah Fry single? Asking for a friend.

[@billhester8821]

You are seeking guidance from....a mathematician

[@wongawonga1000]

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me ...

[@Hendrixes]

it should be illegal for someone that smart to be that funny, I mean, cmon, leave us something!

[@noelpucarua2843]

She's not so smart. Getting the bus to Tesco's and flying home with the shopping is much more sensible.

[@AssassinHunterGamingChannel]

What happened to impartiality?

[@cde.zhaletscou9421]

the internet glove sounds unrealistic. Also, no way in hell is a surgeon or medical board going to allow s/th like that.

[@Brez6645]

Hillary calling someone else a crazy narcissist?

[@wazhoola14]

Never used to be a fan of redheads, that's changed, big style. Erm, no, not the speccy one!

[@celeste5508]

Didnt need to be a mathematician to predict any of that

[@AntonoirJacques]

Reminds me of my ex girlfriend