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ALT Ageless UK paperback cover: a twist on the tortoise and the hare, with the tortoise strapped to an assistive rocket!
ALT Ageless US paperback cover: a rather elegant-looking fish
ALT Treemap of causes of death among children under 5 in 2023 where each rectangle’s size represents the share of the global total of 4.67 million deaths. The chart shows infectious diseases and birth disorders make up the largest shares (about 44% and 42% respectively), with leading individual causes including respiratory infections, preterm birth, and neonatal asphyxia, while injuries and non‑communicable causes account for much smaller shares. Data source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025). License: CC BY.
ALT Scatter plot titled "US research funding vs deaths, by cause". Subtitle: "NIH research funding of a disease or cause of death in 2024, plotted against annual US deaths from that cause in 2023. Ageing causes over 80% of US deaths, but receives just 0.8% of NIH funding." The vertical axis shows NIH funding (2024), from 0 to $8bn. The horizontal axis shows deaths from disease (2023), from 0 to about 2.6m. Each point is a cause of death. Most points cluster in the bottom-left corner, with low funding and low-to-moderate death counts. Cancer sits high up at roughly 720k deaths and just over $8bn in funding — the highest-funded point. Alzheimer's and coronaviruses sit high on the funding axis despite relatively few deaths. Heart disease sits low and to the right, at about 1.4m deaths but under $2bn in funding. Ageing is far to the right at around 2.6m deaths but near the very bottom of the funding axis, an extreme outlier showing huge mortality and almost no funding.
ALT Scatter plot titled "US research funding vs deaths, by cause". Subtitle: "NIH research funding of a disease or cause of death in 2024, plotted against annual US deaths from that cause in 2023. Ageing causes over 80% of US deaths, but receives just 0.8% of NIH funding." The vertical axis shows NIH funding (2024), from 0 to $8bn. The horizontal axis shows deaths from disease (2023), from 0 to about 2.6m. Each point is a cause of death. Most points cluster in the bottom-left corner, with low funding and low-to-moderate death counts. Cancer sits high up at roughly 720k deaths and just over $8bn in funding — the highest-funded point. Alzheimer's and coronaviruses sit high on the funding axis despite relatively few deaths. Heart disease sits low and to the right, at about 1.4m deaths but under $2bn in funding. Ageing is far to the right at around 2.6m deaths but near the very bottom of the funding axis, an extreme outlier showing huge mortality and almost no funding.
ALT Scatter plot titled "US research funding vs deaths, by cause". Subtitle: "NIH research funding of a disease or cause of death in 2024, plotted against annual US deaths from that cause in 2023. Ageing causes over 80% of US deaths, but receives just 0.8% of NIH funding." The vertical axis shows NIH funding (2024), from 0 to $8bn. The horizontal axis shows deaths from disease (2023), from 0 to about 2.6m. Each point is a cause of death. Most points cluster in the bottom-left corner, with low funding and low-to-moderate death counts. Cancer sits high up at roughly 720k deaths and just over $8bn in funding — the highest-funded point. Alzheimer's and coronaviruses sit high on the funding axis despite relatively few deaths. Heart disease sits low and to the right, at about 1.4m deaths but under $2bn in funding. Ageing is far to the right at around 2.6m deaths but near the very bottom of the funding axis, an extreme outlier showing huge mortality and almost no funding.
