This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Cancer kills almost a third of us, and yet we spend less than £5 per person per year looking for a cure…and it's by far the best-funded medical condition. How much do we really spend on science? The Scienceogram will help you put science funding into context, from what kills us, to space probes, to cinema tickets and mobile phones.
Andrew is a physicist making the transition to biology. He works as a computational biologist at Cancer Research UK, after a PhD researching magnetism and superconductivity at Oxford University. He is also the winner of FameLab UK 2012, blogs on the Guardian and The Conversation, and presents the Lab, Camera, Action! series on YouTube (youtube.com/labcameraaction). Follow @statto on Twitter to find out what he's up to!
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