…planners asked what lessons the air war in Europe and Japan held for U.S. air strategy in the future. They pointed in particular to the lack of air intelligence early…

by: Nerea Calvillo Presentation as a prototype itself: opens questions through the material of In the Air, a project which makes visible the components of the air. A degree of…

…United States and eastern Canada. However, this was not itself the result of a hack, but a combination of factors including old and buggy software, long-term policy and management failures,…

…also atmospheric changes that occur here and there on our planet. Here, it is to the air and its properties, amongst other things, that we owe this potential of vision….

Industrialization has changed the very biochemistry of the planet. Daily our bodies are exposed to a range of perceptible and imperceptible hazards. Everyday products are comprised of a laundry list…

…rise of airplane-based trophy hunting in Alaska. The ultimate goal of the meeting, as Alaskan Senator E.L. Bartlett reminded the assembled scientists, was to produce a “machinery to gather, evaluate,…

…that are lacking in the countries hardest-hit by the Ebola outbreak (Farmer 2014). Under the headline “Canada’s response to Ebola driven by fear, not evidence,” a trio of Canadian physicians…

…They form community laboratories, but also work at home, or between university, corporate, and community laboratories. Frequent activities include the fabrication and selling of cheap and user-friendly laboratory instruments and…

…some revolutionary ambitions. But is it a better tent? Does it live up to its aims of producing a compact, cheap, lightweight product for meeting a basic human need? The…

…the Arctic polar ice cap. The latter are singular entities in a way the former are not, and they speak more directly to the socio-technical dimensions of nonlinear planetary events…

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…

…but never contained. Wind is motion: without movement, it becomes merely air. Wind is nothing if it is not animated. It is an unmooring that acts upon bodies, often best…

…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…

…Nobel for marketing, he could have won that, too. That’s not meant as a jab but as recognition of Yunus’s rhetorical flair. Yunus not only founded a financial institution that…

…is implemented by the Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna (CRSN), a national health research center. It is funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and supported by…

…colorless, translucent oil developed to meet Europe’s (chiefly Britain’s) demand for tin cans, cheap margarine, and cheap soap (Billows and Beckwith 1892:3). Soft palm oil, low in free fatty acids,…

…contingencies of local “repair work.” As Jackson (2014) explained, the work of “repair occupies and constitutes an aftermath, growing at the margins, breakpoints, and interstices … it fills in the…

…or the air and the “active” collection through hacking into information systems, whether it be the president’s network, Greek telecom networks during the Athens Olympics, or in tactical situations throughout…

…with blurred borders between rock, water, and air. Their hydrolithic architecture challenges the easy separation between content and container intrinsic to our tank-like imagination. Furthermore, when located in volcanic formations,…

…of the intensity of the hot zone functions to freeze the otherwise relatively fluid channels of global biomedical infrastructure. Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group,…

…could have been thwarted. In short, OPM was a sitting duck. “A LinkedIn for Spies” In July 2015, the news got even worse for Washington. United Airlines revealed that it…

…casinos were only later adapted to other domains—airports, financial trading floors, shopping malls, banks, and government agencies.[1] “Knowledge is power and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the…

…files. 23 supplementary system files, some from New York’s city and state records, are also interconnected: 311 (government directory assistance), Stars (parking tickets), e-justice, parole and probation, etc. Plus, the…

…the encyclopaedia, in one important sense, also eschews all classification: it presents itself by means of an anti-order – the alphabet. UA member Emily Jones comes closest the absolute plane…

…helped to establish preparedness as a central problem and norm for global health. A suspected Ebola patient being moved from a plane in Pretoria, South Africa during the Zaire outbreak…