Lyle Fearnley explores how global preparedness for emerging diseases left some places unprepared.

Joan Donovan dives into the dumpster of the Internet, and comes up holding some tasty ideas about what “doxing” means today and yesterday.

Alex Nading explains how brincidofovir’s path to the front lines of the Ebola crisis underscores the contingent, speculative, “chimeric” nature of contemporary global health.

Emily Yates-Doerr tells two stories that reveal the challenge of grasping global inequality.

Anthropologist and retail consultant Michael Powell takes us on a stroll down Aisle #6. What’s in the center of the grocery store and why is it causing a crisis in the industry?

This issue of Limn focuses on new social media, data mining and surveillance, crowdsourcing, cloud computing, big data, and Internet revolutions.