If you’re a regular reader the chances are you’re all too familiar with the work of Anthony Watts. Watts is the titular Watts from Watts Up With That, possibly the […]

With the president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, recently advising anyone interested in science to crush and bury anti-science types, web project Skeptical Science’s new 97 Hours of […]

For people who work in mental health provision Robin Williams was a life saver. Often gruelling, unrewarding and grey, working in mental health is one of the hardest occupations a […]

Despite a bit of a silence recently it seems Alan Partridge is alive and well and has moved into the area of graphic/merchandise design, specifically at a firm called iG […]

With the news that a woman collapsed and died from suspected Ebola infection at Gatwick Airport today (it turns out she didn’t have the virus), scientists are warning of a […]

It remains true that we all live under the climate. And in Britain in particular, that means we love to talk about it. This is something to encourage: open, honest […]

Earlier this month there was some good news for the climate and people concerned about it: the BBC has finally woken up to the foolish idea of balance in the climate change […]

A few weeks ago it was ‘Time For Change’  according to University College London (UCL) in the way climate scientists engage with the public about the dangers of climate change by, for example, […]

Attendee at the launch of Hillside Science Centre last week, Vivienne Westwood, as working class as she’s ever been, today launched her Talk Fracking campaign (talkfracking.org), backed by such luminaries […]

To that vocal minority who like to drone on that ‘doom-mongering’ or ‘catastrophism’ is an apparent ‘tactic’ of reactionary, conservative forces… one word: John. To the majority of that vocal […]

Why do some people vote badly? It’s a question psychologists and psephologists have been asking for over a century. Sadly, progress for them without our contemporary computer grunt has proved […]

You may have seen the news that anti-fracking film-makers in the US have been ‘caught out’ accepting money from Middle East Oil interests. Shocking stuff! But hang on… Didn’t Matt […]

Warning: this post contains images of confrontation and challenges by door-staff By this morning it was confirmed: the weird UK Independence Party (UKIP) made many gains in the local council elections […]

A couple of days ago I met up with The Register’s resident tech start-up expert, Steve Bong. It was a very interesting and enlightening chat, particularly – and Steve would […]

With the publication a few days ago of Action on Smoking and Health’s new report on electronic cigarette use much is being made of its finding that e-cig uptake is much […]

Good science is plain There is at present a tug-of-war raging online between evidence and ideology with truth the loser. Pitted against privately loud and colourful voices of science denial, quiet […]

After listening to Today today I’m struck by a rather uncomfortable thought. In discussions about climate change and the renormalisation of smoking through e-cigarettes it became obvious there is a clear […]

Five portions of fruit and vegetables a day – a familiar mantra for those concerned about their own and their children’s health – may not, after all, be enough, according to a […]

The evidence for climate change posing a threat to global food stocks, animal security and human populations is now overwhelming says the IPCC in its new report, with a WMO […]

Since Marcus wrote his piece about climate change confusion merchants perhaps predictably we seem to have been swamped by these very characters. So be it. A good opportunity to re-iterate some […]

It is an unhappy fact that climate change remains a confusing subject for many. This confusion has had the unfortunate effect of making many people sceptical of the very existence […]

There’s been some interesting news from the Rotman Research Institute in Canada this week with tantalising implications for how we might design general health related cognitive interventions – and specific […]

  This week the European Parliament voted for bigger warning labels on cigarette packs, the banning of ‘lipstick’ size cigarette packets and menthol flavours, and, perhaps most importantly for our children’s […]

LFG is Europe’s only NGO campaigning to bring the brains of the public, government and science together to challenge the brains behind socially and environmentally bad practice. By standing up […]