Professor Hannah Fry

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9,648 appearances 26 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Rest Is Science · Why Do We Like Staring Into Fire? · 27 Sep 2026 podcast

desire that you are, you know, generation after generation after generation. matched

You're i if if we go with what you said earlier, right? matched

Our bodies are the way they are because of our relationship with flames. matched

And and I think that there's something about your body still remembers, right? matched

This is maybe you're getting a bit woo-woo. matched

But your body still remembers because so much of your history, so much of your past was spent around a matched

This argument about our connection to to the fire, I mean it's only really recently that we've lost it. matched

So the ancient Greeks, they had all of these gods of of of everything you can imagine, right? matched

There was like the god of the sky, the god of thunder, the god of the ocean, you know, then there was the god of olive trees, there was the god of whatever. matched

But there was also a god of the half. matched

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And and I think in the modern day that sort of feels a bit like, oh well, you let what have you got a a god of the doorstep as well, like come on. matched

But actually I think what that demonstrates is just how fundamentally important the hearth and the fire was to society and to culture. matched

up until extremely recently because this would be the place that you would sit around and you would have conversations and you would discuss your day and you would tell stories and sing songs and like this was the place where we were the social species. matched

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Absolutely. matched

You know? matched

You're doing something, but you're not it's not requiring your attention. matched

Or or I think doing crafts with my girls is like if we're sitting in drawing or doing Lego or something, so we're sort of we're doing something. matched

That's when when we get the best conversation. matched

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