…sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of its member states,” but also to “promote democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, and good governance” (African Union 2002). Today, the African Union is…

…100-150 active implants to simultaneously managing thousands of implanted targets” (SID Today 2004a:2). According to Matthew Aid, NSA had built tools (and adopted easily available open source tools) for scanning…

…modern archives seem somehow quaint and controllable by comparison to those of today. Today it sometimes seems that collecting everything is just what we do. Why not log it? Why…

…most notably the mobile money transfer service M-Pesa, which today is used by 20 million Kenyans. Within the country it is the most profitable company and largest taxpayer. By most…

…test strips, which are the truly expensive component of this system. Prices are declining today, but in 2010, they went for around $50 to $70 per jar of 50 strips…

…oven. It is nearly six feet tall, weighs over seven hundred pounds, and costs $5,000. 1950: Revision of the Oleomargarine Act inaugurates an era of increasingly widespread (and mandatory) labeling…

…“grok” it. Instead of “publishing” a paper, they talked about hurdling peer review as either “celebrating” their work or “sharing ideas” (Roosth 2010:90). In brief, as Roosth proposes, “an MIT-specific,…

…have been,” a “Möglichkeitssinn” (sense of possibility, Musil 1930/1990, 14-18) in hindsight, mixed with traces of distinction against “normal” engineers. Even though they distance themselves from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial cultures,…

…region. But if the region’s apple and pear orchards stand for healthy sweetness, then what does the sugar beet and its refined sugar stand for today? Sugar has become suspect…

…the mail, and we pay it. What the bill doesn’t reflect is the tremendous change in electricity infrastructure in the twenty-first century. Today, more and more electricity in the United…

…the 50,000 square feet of average stores today, the first supermarkets measured roughly 5,000 to 10,000 square feet. And while the contemporary supermarket experience typically begins in the produce department…

…18 U.S.C. Section 1030(a)(5)(A). Morris was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, a fine of $10,050, and the costs of his supervision….

Fahrenheit 451 (1966). As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of one of the worst refugee crises in modern Western history. The European response to…

…helped raise the alarm over BPA, now an acronym that floats through the consciousness of the Western consumer today. The story of how BPA or bisphenol-A, an organic compound used…

…by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Included in this cache were nearly 1,000 emails and 3,000 other documents. The cache…

…a language of the Hmong-Mien family spoken by some 21,000 people in southern China. Compiled during a four-month research trip to Guangxi Province in 1982, they were filed away in…

…by the “French NIH” (INSERM) issued recommendations outlining how to support and inform patients. But these recommendations remained a dead letter despite the scientists’ conclusion that 160,000 children had been…

…(Drew and Shane 2013). The founders of the CEH credential quickly distanced themselves from Snowden’s actions, noting that CEHs were required to follow a code of ethics, and that only…

…Democratic National Convention emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 Colin Powell emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 John Podesta emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 Cellebrite documents and circumvention tools Unknown 2017 Retina and FlexiSpy source…

…500 cases, all of them potentially fatal, had been discovered during an extensive survey of only 9,500 persons.[2] There were the usual journalists’ approximations about African geography: it was written…

…(BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans. BSE had afflicted more than 36,000 cattle by 1992, and the British government responded by culling more than 100,000 cattle. BSE was an…

Have you ever heard of the “garbage patches” that float in the middle of the oceans? Yes, presumably. Marine litter is today is considered one key element of human impact…

…other words, there are no more secrets.” He will bring down every rotten institution, expose every lie, open government to the governed. “As of today, whatever you want to know,…

…decommodification, and the inclusion or exclusion of different groups. Mumbai’s public water system, comprising more than 4,000 kilometers of pipe, has recently been the target of reform proposals that aim…

…in the world. More than 7,000 city employees distribute nearly 3.5 billion liters of water daily by managing more than 4,000 kilometers of pipe. Their work makes possible the lives…

…in Brighton, Birmingham, and Cambridgeshire; a Thames Tideway tunnel; 160,000 houses built on public land; five new prisons; a “world-class” public health laboratory; a nuclear reactor on the west coast…