…whether real world events like droughts or changes in species ecology can be attributed to climate change. Taking climate change as a problem related to small but persistent changes, they…

…pumped at high rates without concern about directly disturbing the smelt or other endangered fish in the delta. Figure 4: The proposed delta tunnels. In late March, the Bay-Delta Imported…

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…

…attitudes towards climate change would change after Katrina, which remains the costliest event in U.S. history ($62 billion in insured damages, $1.25 trillion in overall losses, and 1,322 lives lost)….

…special case of the response to climate change, however, it is also possible to see climate change as simply another episode in a half-century history of attempting to predict, using…

…country’s largest utility, an entity owned by the state, to fund the expansion of the aqueduct in exchange for guaranteed access to the water the new infrastructure would make available….

The polar ice cap rapidly recedes; colonies of honeybees collapse in alarming numbers; androgynous fish are detected in rivers and streams. These reports not only describe recent events, but also…

…only change policies and press relations, they change the people who participate in them. People come out different from how they went in. The focus group itself has become an…

…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)….

…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…

…has been awarding the “Design of the Year” for a decade now, celebrating examples that “promote or deliver change, enable access, extend design practice, or capture the spirit of the…

…business, they had found in the development of standard formats for their interchange the potential to radically simplify the pathways of exchange. No where else had this been more obvious…

…innovation turn is often joined by the embrace of humanitarian design, which is the application of design methods to development ends or—as designers would say—to change what is into what…

…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…

…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…

…sense of what’s changed, and when, over the last, say, decade or so? Kim Zetter: I think we have a number of thresholds in the last decade. And the DNC…

…actually setting strategy.”[2] Staffers crafted a number of rhetorical, organizing, and technical practices that negotiated this dilemma on a daily basis and proved markedly durable for much of the campaign….

…However, as Lien shows, people and products are not stable entities. Market segments and frozen pizzas change over time and in response to each other. As marketers tailor product lines,…

…of gene expression; BPA causes epigenetic changes in developing tissues that in turn shift patterns of gene expression potential in the adult animals, causing changes such as increased adiposity (Vandenberg…

…to collect all the different water and measure it all.” The work would be less tricky if the measurements did not also change according to the vagaries of the weather….

…risk management issues was occasioned by a number of events such as severe storms, the BSE crisis, major blackouts, and last but not least 9/11. It is influenced by the…

…other legal mechanisms) and dropped, unfiltered and uninterpreted, on the open web, does that change the way that information is received upon its release? Would its origins and manner of…

…discern the causes and dynamics of species extinctions for the purposes of improving conservation strategies, particularly as they relate to climate change (Cahill et al 2012; Griffen and Drake 2009;…

…change,” whether those voicing the call are critical social scientists, activists, NGO practitioners, or even government ministers? For how is such change imagined? Does this imply the dream of a…