Amira Pettus diagrams how Occupy recreates the structures and organization of collectives.

Women under thirty and retired men might have surprisingly similar tastes for gambling. Natasha Dow Schüll explains how casinos have created a new kind of crowd.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn takes a hard look at how risk management systems create the risks they are supposed to eliminate.

Jenny Bangham explains how the attempt to create a supply of all possible types of human blood gave rise to genetic diversity research in the 20th century.

Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier and Christopher Kelty ask what the 2014 Ebola outbreak tells us about the history of pandemic preparedness and the blindspots of global health security today.

One of the more spectacular signs of the onset of climate change is the decline of the polar bear population. But is it really in decline? Etienne Benson traces the long and controversial history of modeling the future population of polar bears.

How did the self-service economy emerge? Franck Cochoy displays the ‘pico-infrastructure’ behind modern consumption.