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…

…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…

…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)….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…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…

…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…

…the IKEA store. More attractively, the design arrives with a number of innovative little tricks, including a photovoltaic panel that provides sufficient electricity to power a small light and mobile…

…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…

…that year, sure, but that was just a number, something to make jokes about — She calmed down some and he was crying too by then, so he fixed them…

…and the limited number clinicians who saw first-hand the effects of DES, but the limited number of scientific publications published on the topic gained little interest. It was only intervention…

…quickly moved beyond the highly tailored—bespoke—hacking of a small number of high priority systems. In 2004, the Agency built new facilities to enable them to expand from “an average of…

…quantity of water it could provide. That quantity is calculated through an extraction rate, a number that defines the volume of water that can be extracted from an aquifer per…

…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…

…plotted on map inserts, and each target was assigned a number. Then, information on each target—“all necessary detailed facts that will be needed later to make a target analysis”—was punched…

…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…

…then, is a form of activist technology, a stark contrast to the normative values of the institution in which he works. He is one of a growing number of technologists…

…displaced, and thus plays a far more significant role in humanitarian portfolio. In 2013 (a low year), MSF treated 27,900 patients with cholera, many times the total number who had…

…and supermarket employees, note increasing numbers of shoppers pushing their carts along the edges of the center store, pausing at the edge of each aisle to peer down. Without much…

…generate random numbers. The resulting 512-bit number is an excellent source of randomness, which is then combined with all the data pertinent to that particular value: the version number, the…

…everything, is enlisted in the monitoring system. Acting like surveillance towers, the stations allow us to “see” a great number of things: ventilation that comes in and comes out, but…

…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…