Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

…a professional engineer must subsume their own moral, political, and intellectual agency, channeling instead the interests of their clients. 2: I freed my software, so I freed my mind. The…

…homemade detergent; 5) 393nm UV through Seventh Generation Free and Clear Detergent; 6) 393nm UV through All Free and Clear Detergent. After Josh successfully built his spectrometer with help from…

…beginning, people did not have many numbers to call or much credit with which to call. So they called Customer Care. Dial 123. 24/7. Free. They still call. But now…

…cancellation. This was nearly impossible, because to find this free slot, one would literally have to sit in front of the computer 24/7, refreshing the page and checking for cancellations….

…Similarly, the cultivators of public goods and creative spaces must usually endure some number free riders. Crowds too may suffer from these complications, but a well-designed crowd space can use…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…to 2009, neighborhood volunteers known as Community-Owned Resource Persons, or corps, were recruited to attract and collect mosquitoes during their peak biting hours (sunset to sunrise) at a number of…

…rehabilitated it as a primitive knowledge of nature. The Romans put the interpretation of natural phenomena at the heart of their techniques of divination. The observation of the flight of…

Across rural India the hand-crafted, biofuel cookstove, or chulha, has remained a ubiquitous feature of domestic life. Chulhas are generally cheap or free to construct and repair, are typically hand…

…writing code, stopping only to ice his wrists (Townsend 2015). Yet, questions arose on the ground about the value and meaning of an endeavor that required an ever-growing number of…

…of technology that is paradigmatic for alternative and environmentalist movements of the late twentieth century. Members of the anti-nuclear movement and a number of associated critical intellectuals explicitly drew connections…

…the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the web to perform complex computation” (Law & von Ahn, 2011: viii). The fruits of this research are familiar to anyone…

…you to jail? All right then, you’re free to go? I inched toward the car, and the cop twinkled a toodle-oo at us on his fingers. “Thank you, officer.” Jose…

…role in the piecemeal global public health mapping[2] of a diabetes epidemic rising worldwide. Even with increasing bureaucratic recognition, the number of people with diabetes remains debated by major policy…

…prevalence through regularly conducted fish surveys. In these “trawls,” a boat trails a net for a set amount of time through specific sites in the delta, and the number of…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…Along with colleagues, he developed a number of research projects focused on farmed wild birds: farm surveys to count the number of birds, investigations of how birds were marketed, and…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…the ever-increasing number of conditions that aid packages imposed on poor countries had no positive effect on compliance, and were significantly reducing borrower governments’ “ownership” of the reforms (Boughton 2003)….

…277). This lack of preparedness was especially alarming, he argued, since the world could expect an increasing number of epidemic emergencies due to a number of factors: growth in human…

…by a single equation: the reproductive ratio, or R0, which determines the average number of people a sick individual will infect. Spreading only through close physical contact with very sick…

…reservations from those who are otherwise sympathetic to the case for disclosure. Long-term critic of government secrecy Steven Aftergood explained his reservations about WikiLeaks just as the Manning disclosures were…

…freedom, an anxiety that gave rise to what is arguably his most famous metaphor: the “iron cage” (stahlhartes Gehäuse). Weber’s metaphor paid homage to the dominant form of production at…

…The few ambitious free software projects attempting to change things are faced with rather unsustainable funding models, which rarely last long enough to grow the projects to maturity. Nation states…

…particular age group. It combined national census data and parish death registers to track a group of infants of the same age through life, recording the numbers still alive at…

…Likewise Ashley Madison: setting up an account was free, but sending messages, giving “virtual gifts” (the usual social network chintz), and initiating instant message sessions all cost “credits,” which users…

…ISIS was more of a cause than a job. “We do this for free,” said one GhostSec hunter. Or, as TorReaper put it: “The intel…became a commodity that had to…

…Factual truth is essential to politics for a number of reasons, not least of which is that “facts inform opinions,” which means that “freedom of opinion is a farce unless…