Technological buzzwords like ‘Big Data’, the ‘Internet of Things’ and ‘Machine Learning’ are becoming ubiquitous in our increasingly techno-centric society, with advocates heralding the birth of a new data-driven age where predictive and analytic technologies will inform every aspect of
Under the Climate Change Act (2008), every five years the UK government must compile and publish “its assessment of the risks and opportunities arising for the UK from climate change” [1]. The first of these reports was compiled in 2012
In January, a state of emergency was in the city of Flint, Michigan because of dangerous levels of lead in the water supply. The problem started when in 2014 officials chose to get the water from the Flint river, instead
Yesterday, some of us teamed up with BP or Not BP to attend the ‘Science Museum Lates’ themed around the BP-sponsored Cosmonauts exhibition with the aim of highlighting BP’s environmental record, history of funding anti-science climate denial lobbyists and raising
Today, along with BP or not BP, we held a ‘public but unauthorised’ conference at the Science Museum, highlighting the institution’s continued ties with the fossil fuel industry. We believe that the Science Museum has a duty to promote scientific
