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…

…idea of forgetting—of closing down material that infringes on individual privacy—the open encyclopedia embraces it. But it manages to reconcile the apparent conflict between open and closed by being open…

…cure cancer, to solve the world’s energy problems, but only if we create open access to all genomic data.[2] Life demands nothing less. In the dominant popular account of genomics,…

…of unrecognizable chemicals. Any given human’s body fat, blood and tissues bear a similar list of chemicals, an inscribed history of his or her contact with the environment. Consumers cannot…

The labyrinth of foil inside a glucometer strip reveals a fragile chemistry. If you peel open the plastic covering, many inner circuits contain some version of biosensor technology, electrochemical cells…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…and the figure of the biohacker have gained momentum. Sequencing DNA and developing open source software tools for bioinformatics were described as “hacking the mother code” (Regis 1995) or “hacking…

…the use of open data and open source is showing, many urban infrastructures can be more open and adjustable yet still be secure. It might well be that although allowing…

…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…

…resemblances in a reunion photo, but training computers to perform such feats of cultural discrimination remains an open research problem. Twenty-five years ago Winograd and Flores (1986) declared such problems…

…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…

…that the neighboring community had always used for free (if risky) open defecation. Without a significant marketing/education/awareness campaign to sensitize the community, potential IkoToilet members, to the dangers of open…

…we’re not dead. Be cool and hand me that USB stick. Keep your hands low. The cop can’t see us until I open the doors.” “What about the cameras?” “There’s…

…water migrates by flowing through variegated openings and saturating its substrate. It seeps in where space becomes available, colonizing possible nooks, flowing into more open locations, pushing against impermeable walls…

…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,…

…case, I’ve now had two clients called “terrorists” in open court. In the second case, the former boss of a client of mine, in a moment that almost made me…

…organizations, of mainstreaming them and showing their potential contributions to DFID’s work. The Amplify platform has been adapted from the original OpenIDEO platform, which was built to stimulate “open innovation”…

…unlimited and unrestricted access to them. The support for a freely accessible scholarly knowledge commons takes many different forms. A growing number of academics publish in open access journals, and…

…important treatment centers in Kailahun (in a site away from the main hospital [see Open Street Map] to avoid disruption of its functioning); in their era, the British doctors followed…

…utility, little devices can at least open larger questions that otherwise might remain foreclosed. If a welfare state now appears the lost guarantor of security, then how might it be…

…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…

…they had the authority to do so. White House staffers framed the issue as a problem of resources: they needed to open up hard drive space for the new administration’s…

…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…

…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…