…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…

…endangered species regulations sharply limited the amount of this water that could be shipped south. After four years of severe drought, Central and Southern California water contractors were livid that…

…now found in Southeast Asia and South America, it is indigenous to Africa, flourishing between 7 degrees north and south of the equator with its greatest concentration in West Africa…

…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…

…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…

…1976, these approaches have kept the numbers of infected lower than 200 on average. Needless to say, the current situation in West Africa is different. A year now from the…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…through the Kissi country, across the borders of Guinea and Liberia, and south towards Kenema and west into the Kono District. The superposition of the two maps is not an…

…Virginia’s Jefferson County learned of the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH), a proposed 765-kV line to deliver the cheap coal power of West Virginia 275 miles east to demand centers on…

Yalta in West Africa Ebola’s presence is felt almost immediately upon landing in Conakry. On the way into the city from the airport, judiciously placed billboards dot the landscape, proudly…

…importance of sin taxes within global health can be illustrated by the mounting number of countries in the Global South—from Chile, Mexico, and South Africa to Thailand, India, and the…

In the late summer and early fall of 2014, as the Ebola epidemic spun seemingly out of control in West Africa and threatened to spread globally, multiple observers began to…

Ebola’s ability to travel has been well publicized, but there is another story: one of immobility. In West Africa, research materials that contribute to improving knowledge about the disease such…

…from the West African theater, or in patients…who presented with Ebola virus disease in the U.S.” (Loftus 2014; emphasis added). The use of the military term “theater” here is telling….

…conference on technology in Durban, South Africa, held over several days at a tourist lodge turned meeting venue (Mellon Foundation 2016). Shunning the redundancy of read-out-loud conference papers and PowerPoints,…

…timeline that follows charts the history of this infrastructure from the early moments of modernity, within the particularly limited context of the West, to explore the themes raised in this…

…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…

…also mired in the propaganda war between Russia and Ukraine and its western allies. Much of the more immediate concern dates back to the 2003 electrical blackout across the northeastern…

…piece of software or another and hope it is not going to fail the person we are “helping.” For example, I recently traveled to a West African country to meet…

…to services such as health care and finance. Sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia are notably prominent in the geography of these devices and provide the setting…

…“virus hunting” non-profit Metabiota captured the maxim of this worldview:“If we can detect it, we can stop it” (Knox 2012). The ongoing, devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa has revealed,…

…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…

…him right back: broadcasting Turner’s home phone number, previous places of residence, and criminal records. As the doxing feud escalated, online allegations swirled that Turner was an FBI mole, sleuthing…