Prof Hannah Fry, 'Where does Rishi Sunak like to go for breakfast... Wetherspoons' #HIGNFY

Ian Hislop, 'Oh he doesn't'

Prof Hannah Fry, 'He says: We have one at home in Northallerton. I think I still have the app on my phone.. Which is interesting, because, the Wetherspoons…

Room 101 with Paul Merton
Wed 18:30
BBC Radio 4
Hannah Fry
Room 101 with Paul Merton
If you had to banish items to Room 101 what would you choose? Hannah Fry tells Paul Merton her choices - including exams and complicated toilet flushes.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Genuinely delightful

Speaking on behalf of women in their 40s and 50s, deploy us. We are full of rage and we already have to sort everything out anyway.

That’s it, I’ve found it. My favourite tweet of all time.

Pretty amazing finding - new analysis from Scotland shows NO CASES OF CERVICAL CANCER in women vaccinated at 12 or 13 years of age. The HPV vaccine has been remarkably effective. Exactly what was expected, but nevertheless fantastic news.

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Bit peeved my Fitbit thinks I've done no exercise this week - I literally gave birth on Monday.

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Catch up with Hannah Fry 's #WILTY episode last night on BBC iPlayer

New episode incoming! Join us and Danny Jones Shaparak Khorsandi شاپرک خرسندی Hannah Fry and the return of Charlie Brooker. See you Friday, 8pm, BBC One!

My 12-year-old has a half day today, and the first thing he did on getting home early for Christmas (after burrowing under a sofa blanket) was put on the excellent Secret Genius of Modern Life 😀

Hannah Fry's series has captivated him more than anything else lately!

This is precisely what statisticians used to say. 'If you can predict well the next data point, they you understand the reality or the process that generates that point'. They said it and said it until Causal Inference proved them wrong. Understanding takes more than prediction.…

Oh I know *exactly* what I’m doing 😝

Loving Hannah Fry in the faraday cage when 1.2m volts strike, the subtitles declare “she whimpers” 😂

UK: we want to be a science superpower

Also UK:

An extraordinary likeness 👩‍🦰

Fluid dynamics fuck yeah 🤘

Something tells me MudBone was looking away during that ‘sausage fingers’ segment

I will never recover from this student email.

Planning on using this as my origin story when I eventually run for mayor of London

Hosting Have I Got News For You tonight, 9pm BBC1