…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

…Ikea Website: 1998 Launch of the unofficial platform IkeaHackers.net: 2006 14 Year the first officially Ikea-approved hackable sofa bed will hit the market: 2018 15 Number of phone calls AT&T…

…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…

…said everything will be fine mum if you see this dont worry i love you 80s Digital Fantasy Phone. Illustration by Amisha Gadani. Plausible Deniability “We’re dead.” “Shut up Jose,…

…the project site at Kyangjin Gompa in November 2016 (Nima Lama). Construction on the project, relocated to a new site further up the valley near Kyangjin Gompa, began in early…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

…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…

…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…

…2010, 3), and to provide “insights into the origin of the universes”(Beech 2010, vii). Respect. Admiration. Adoration, even. The question remains how such a peculiar site (the Pays de Gex…

…many jagged edges, and it does not slide easily enough from site to site. It gets caught. It slows the statisticians down, effacing their models as it does so. “Wealth…

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

…declare an official emergency until August, and even then had difficulty galvanizing an intensive international response. The WHO “should be the global leader” in directing and coordinating international health efforts,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…quest for simple answers. Indeed, the phrase clearly references European folk tradition, in which a silver bullet might slay a monster such as a werewolf.[5] The silver bullet suggests a…

…reflected in the statistic that more people in the world today have access to a mobile phone than a safe and clean toilet (United Nations 2013). As such, the toilet…

…the marketing strategies of food companies, but they also upend efforts to regulate the food system through the official certification of product qualities. The result is a proliferation of writing…

…sporting events and political speeches; Barack Obama recently addressed “the Kenyan people” there (White House 2015). But on this day, it was the site of a more unorthodox event. The…

…commerce with the Ottoman Empire) to major centers of European and Neo-European trade, cities like Venice, Paris, London, and Boston. The centralized demands of coffee production produce sites of social…

…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…

…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…

…far more encompassing definition that suggested the distinctiveness of information warfare and, in many cases, the radical disruption of traditional kinetic warfare. The first known official Department of Defense definition…

…who has tried to log into a website only to be challenged with a distorted image of text. Website developers use those images, called CAPTCHAs, to discriminate real people trying…