…on Trans-European Energy Infrastructures (European Union 2013). Projects of common interest serve the implementation of “strategic trans-European energy infrastructure priorities” (European Union 2013:41). Although the PCIs are subjected to cost-benefit…

…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…

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…

…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 define citizenship, as in Opitz and Tellmann’s account of infrastructural Europe, which exceeds the boundaries of political Europe? What happens when multiple infrastructural systems overlap, and groups or individuals…

…be “better” in a Middle Eastern refugee camp, but not in a Western European reception facility. It may be “better” when funds are plentiful and refugee numbers limited, but not…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…health officials for poor planning, which faded as the anticipated wave of h1n1 arrived without causing a catastrophic number of deaths. In Europe, when the fall wave arrived, the apparent…

…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…

…security of devices, networks, and people. While the vulnerability of IoT devices is now well known, it is not just cheap consumer equipment that lacks sensible protocols or whose existing…

…colorless, translucent oil developed to meet Europe’s (chiefly Britain’s) demand for tin cans, cheap margarine, and cheap soap (Billows and Beckwith 1892:3). Soft palm oil, low in free fatty acids,…

…center, nothing but pure chance? We shake our heads together in puzzlement. 20 July 1917, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blindfolded, drew the first draft number in the lottery…

…as laboratory based microscopy and, as the number of tests available on the market proliferated, concerns about disparity in the quality of devices and a lack of regulation in many…

…important role: they are the members of the expert panels invited by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to judge health claims. Health claims are strictly regulated in Europe. EFSA…

Sophie Houdart In a book entitled The Large Hadron Collider. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe, Martin Beech, physician and professor of astronomy, starts his depiction of “Europe’s exultant shrine…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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)….

…making a script to help with booking a cheap train ticket. There are all sorts of little everyday examples that help us get in the backdoor of all sorts of…

…They form community laboratories, but also work at home, or between university, corporate, and community laboratories. Frequent activities include the fabrication and selling of cheap and user-friendly laboratory instruments and…

…representative of the reality of technology use as a tool for repression by a state. For every dissident targeted by sophisticated commercial spyware made by a European company, there are…