The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting
Baby Fry is here! And showing signs of being a mathematician already. Here she is with a rather marvellous demonstration of a singular point on a smooth vector field. 🍼
I realise I should be at an advantage on this, but can someone here explain how imperial measurements actually work? They remain a mystery. Thank you sincerely, from everyone under 50.
EXCL: Boris Johnson plans to announce imperial measurements will be revived to mark Queen's Platinum Jubilee and boost flagging support among Brexit voters. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
It's an extraordinary coincidence. But for me, the most powerful bit of the original tv prog was this:
This is our 2018 simulation of the difference that everyone washing their hands 5-10 times a day might make to the spread of a flu-like virus.
See how much time it buys us?
In Jan 2021, while having treatment for cervical cancer, I started filming myself. It started as a way to make sense of what was happening to me, but I soon realised there was a much bigger story, about how we approach cancer treatment in this country… telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…
Doing my first in-person lecture this morning in four years and I’m strangely nervous. (Back at last after baby, pandemic, cancer). Also I did my eyeliner in the car and it looks shit.. Hopefully my students won’t notice.