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The Mother Of All Infographics


I'm a sucker for charts and diagrams.

Last night, Professor Brian Cox was chatting away to me (in person, I might add), about how much money the government spends on scientific endeavours and what a miniscule proportion of the overall budget it is.  He used this diagram: 

link:

which the Guardian published a couple of years ago to illustrate it.  Sadly there doesn't appear to be a 2010 version.  I think we have to wait for a spending review.

It's still bloomin' awesome though!



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The most disgusting thing is the loan repayment figure of £25bn as our debt is approx £470bn and before we all blame the banks - they were bailed out to the tune of £85bn which suggests some money has been wasted elsewhere...

If we get the debt under control there'll be more money to spend on cool stuff -

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I just finished watching "wonders of the solar system" with brian cox not 20 minutes ago.



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I have a bit of a man crush on him!

He was doing a live lecture in Bristol with Ben Goldacre (another of my heroes - he's the guy that called out Gillian McKeith on her phony doctor's credentials, by getting his dead cat a doctorate from the same dodgy south american online 'university'), Simon Singh and some other sciency people. It were BRILLIANT. Like being at a LECTURE on MARS! I LOVE physics. It's so BRILLIANT, by eck. Must...stop...grinning...

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I'm a bit jealous :) I would love to meet that man and pick his brain.

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Back to infographics.

Remember the Tommy Wesphall theory that states that based on shared characters, products and places, most television series take place within the mind of a character from St Elsewhere? No?

Okay here's a link.

The infographic that used to go with it looked like this:

Pretty dull, huh?

But now it looks like THIS!


It's so pretty...

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