…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…

…and a slow and inadequate response to the challenges of many simultaneous incidents of power lines being brought down by trees in a severe storm (U.S./Canada Power Outage Task Force…

…(Rudolph and Ridley 1986). Regulation now functions on the premise that competition enables both producers and consumers to perform at their best while also securing public interest in the form…

Sophie Houdart In a book entitled The Large Hadron Collider. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe, Martin Beech, physician and professor of astronomy, starts his depiction of “Europe’s exultant shrine…

…in fact accidentally killed only four bears (Flyger 1967: 53). Of the thirty-eight they had pursued by aircraft over the sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, they had managed to hit…

…A multiweek national bestseller, the book garnered Preston a reported $3 million advance for his next book, numerous awards, and a mention among the American Scientist’s list of “100 or…

…a “handbook” for an imaginary “Flex Machine”: a first iteration of a set of ideas that culminated a few years later in Kay’s vision for a “DynaBook” (1972). While still…

…to the City. Mumbai’s water network is structured to distribute water from large dams via trunk mains through secondary transmission lines to service lines. The reticulate form of the network…

…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…

…air quality because of the smells coming from their tap water. Analysis of the sample showed H2S levels of more than 185 times above EPA’s recommended long-term exposure level. The…

…the lines between public and private interests; between obligations, gifts and commodities; and between long-term improvement and short-term relief. Limn 9, “Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods,” examines the tremendous intellectual and…

…crowds, dressed in their Sunday best, disembarked from their buses and walked toward the grounds, now peppered with new signage. The first of these gave a hint of what was…

…a pair of computer scientists from the University of Minnesota, published a book for marketing executives. Word of Mouse: The Marketing Power of Collaborative Filtering promised to upend the marketing…

…was placed delicately under an armpit. The nurse listened to a child’s breathing with a stethoscope. A clinic book, detailing a child’s previous visits to the clinic was cursorily examined….

…courts across the United States. I’m writing this in an airport in Kentucky after the sentencing of a client. He and his colleague hacked a cheap high school football fan…

…culture, and physical environment, he never planned to produce an academic monograph. Instead, he envisioned a strange chimera of coffee-table book and scholarly tome. Not only would the book feature…

…situations demand new magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 513)   The origin of the humble Band-Aid offers enticing material for corporate legend. In 1920, Earle Dickson was a cotton buyer for the…

…Airport. The emergency room where I (VKN) work is another kind of Ebola front line: Hospital A, the first major teaching hospital between Charles de Gaulle Airport and the city…

…excessive chopping of wood. There is one inefficiency of the traditional stove, however: limited airflow. Placement of wood on the dirt floor of the stove limits the air available for…

…on climate, but also water, land, air, and natural resources. At least for some, LCA has become part of the information infrastructure used both to manage global supply chains and…

…perceived these long lines as a clear victory. Her previous work experience with the London Underground and Dubai World was critical for this position: she seemed to understand large transport…