Ice buckets, research and the cost of disease
The Ice Bucket Challenge has led to a focus on what we spend on research and care for diseases. How does that really stack up against what kills us?
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R&D funding select committee submission
The Scienceogram submission to the Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into UK research and development funding for science and technology.
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Open letter on the GIST public spending tool
Last week, the Cabinet Office launched GIST, a new tool for displaying government spending. We sent an open letter suggesting how it could be improved.
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The Scienceogram at TEDxHull
In April, Andrew headed up north to TEDxHull to speak about the Scienceogram. Watch the video of his talk here.
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Why do we need the Scienceogram?
The Scienceogram takes a pretty unusual perspective on government spending. We’re surprised that it is unusual, because the idea behind it is very simple, but it really can bring home the relative sizes of numbers that are otherwise just incomprehensible figures ending in ‘-illion’.
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The Scienceogram launches!
Welcome to scienceogram.org, and our new blog! The Scienceogram is about trying to convince people, from the public to politicians, that more spending on science makes sense. The main aim of this website is to show people just how little we’re currently spending on science compared to the size of the problems it’s trying to…