…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…

…In this view, all people should have access to clean cooking rather than to incrementally improved stoves that may reduce smoke but compare poorly with existing chulhas in functionality and…

…utopia also appeals to those who would look to the crowd as a substitute for – or an extension of – existing methods of production. Crowds can process and generate…

…to mechanics for routine service-checks could be used to double-check the integrity of all systems. But then he’d started getting signed, obfuscated blobs from contractors who served governments around the…

…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…

…their own computers to check each product for duplicates. Like home-based pieceworkers, these checkers were paid per product evaluated (Pontin, 2007). Workers completed tasks simple and unambiguous enough (ideally) to…

…can we learn about the contemporary field of global health—and its limits—from the still-unfolding epidemic? The existing infrastructure of global health preparedness, as we have seen, focused narrowly on the…

…on Government Operations in the mid-1950s. During these hearings, experts and officials in fields such as civil defense, mobilization planning, structural engineering, and radiation science testified that existing conceptions of…

…order. A Chinese saying goes: “Kill the cock to frighten the monkey.” A customer checks the health of a chicken in a live poultry market. Since sentinels are often the…

…In my experiment, I used ultraviolet light to check several liquids for fluorescence. While many different substances will fluoresce under UV light, I was looking for a certain dye used…

…existing authorities. The current outbreak, however, reveals the full extent to which this approach presumes the existence of a political, as well as technical health infrastructure. From the perspective of…

…attention to existing inequalities and can thereby exacerbate them, academics and practitioners are increasingly using the term “inclusive innovation” to describe innovation practices that explicitly aim to improve the lives…

…such critiques dominated public debate in response to the debt crisis of the 1980s. As governments defaulted on existing development loans, scholars and activists alike criticized development banks for imposing…

…new relationships, new capacities, or re-arrange existing relationships of knowledge and power. On the other hand, there are the reassuringly familiar collectivities—like “the people” or “the public” or “the community.”…

…out their research. According to one anonymous source reported at Motherboard, SEI had the ability to deanonymize a new Tor hidden service in less than two weeks. Existing hidden services…

…such as no way for a participant to automatically generate a new login password if they forgot their existing one. The piloted lessons were not even available as an app:…

In 2009 numerous reports of a potentially dangerous flu activated existing global systems of surveillance. As public health officials attempted to characterize the strain associated with the outbreak they turned…

…It drew not only upon the preexisting infrastructure of the Census, but also upon preexisting standards of administration, hierarchy, and contract in the creation of new governmental forms. Like other…

…part of a tradition which I call, for lack of a better term, “radical engineering.” Radical engineers fundamentally challenge existing notions of (here, digital media) technologies: their basic features, purposes,…

…shopping in the store again. Indeed, many activists argue that LIY actions should minimize the defacement of the original package and fit as seamlessly as possible within the existing product…

…against a collective he/she is related to. By contrast, a sentinel is a part of an existing surveillance device, whether institutionalized or not. Its efficiency depends on the degree of…

…also the last. In a long tradition of imaginary machines, it remained, for some time, difficult to locate. Instead, the archive’s chosen format and pre-existing methodological and theoretical frameworks became…

…Subject Interview” and “interviews with neighbors, employers, educators, references and spouses/cohabitants.” It also includes “record checks with local law enforcement where the individual lived, worked, or went to school in…

…arrangements of publics, experts, and infrastructures. Consider Andrew Lakoff’s study of water management and the protection of an endangered species in California—a small fish called the delta smelt. At one…

…back some 5,000 to 6,000 years, with oil palm fossil pollen identified in Miocene layers in the Niger Delta and archeological evidence of an oil palm trade among third-millennium Egyptians…

…energy. For the benefit of credibility, numbers are presented as transparently as possible, so everyone can check the calculations. Making a prospective LCA is, however, easier said than done. When…