…liquefied petroleum gas. The Enduring Project of Improving Stoves in Rural India In some regions of the world, improved biofuel stoves have diffused successfully. In rural India, however, massive efforts…

…bestseller Imagining India and was brought into the previous Congress Party–led government to create Aadhaar. Nilekani’s concept in brief is that India’s future increasingly depends upon the distribution of “service,”…

…the 50,000 square feet of average stores today, the first supermarkets measured roughly 5,000 to 10,000 square feet. And while the contemporary supermarket experience typically begins in the produce department…

…Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals.” The…

…the last several years in the number of internet users in PNG from less than 2% in 2010 to more than 11% in 2016. At the same time, mobile phones,…

…Initiative, a US$1 billion project to reduce tobacco use in developing countries led by the Bloomberg and Gates foundations, in which sin taxes play a central role. Fig.1. WHO poster…

…which initially appeared in staggering quantity, truly began to subside. Many who lived in New York in the 1990s will tell you today that they feel much safer. This is…

…global health might appear cynically insufficient, the smallest palliation in the face of serious need. Such critical, suspicious use of the term invites interrogation, however, given its literal referent in…

…rates by which we manage aquifers, about how one aquifer bleeds into another, and about the legal instruments (e.g., water use permits) that we use to try to distribute water…

…oxidizing) when its silver halide (the photo responsive element) is exposed to H2S. Compared to commercial meters that cost a few hundred dollars and are difficult for non-professionals to use,…

…build small facilities to reduce menhaden into oil and meal for use in industrial and agricultural products. By the mid-twentieth century, more than two hundred of these facilities dotted the…

…people increasingly use the internet (and write emails) instead of the telephone; and in order to do so, they must divulge their IP address to an ISP in order to…

…attention to existing inequalities and can thereby exacerbate them, academics and practitioners are increasingly using the term “inclusive innovation” to describe innovation practices that explicitly aim to improve the lives…

…Such institutional embedding (to use the new institutionalist language) is not dissimilar to the kind of infrastructural “network effects” (to use the engineering/economic language) of internet-based apps and platforms that…

…test strips, which are the truly expensive component of this system. Prices are declining today, but in 2010, they went for around $50 to $70 per jar of 50 strips…

…predecessors, and driving 800,000 less miles per year: “that’s 300 less coast-to-coast hauls!” says the narrator (assuming roughly 3000 miles per haul, it would be closer to 160 hauls, but…

…that a technological intervention is also a political one is inscribed as a double meaning in his post’s title: “The Internet Enables Incubator Progress.” However, as in the previous example,…

…recipes that use it as an ingredient, or strategies to incorporate the product into a daily balanced diet. It is here that the consumer discovers the conspicuously inconspicuous information panel,…

…operations involved “actions taken to affect adversary information and information systems, while defending one’s own information and information systems” (CJCSI 3210.1A 1998). CNE was related to but was not in…

…it insufficient in one country made it extravagant in another. So although the Better Shelter tries to be better everywhere, it can never hope to adapt to the infinite complexity…

…with, most corporate software developers associate the term “hacker” to two specific behaviors: “(1) Anarchist activism against oppressing institutions in order to regain in a way a certain flavor of…

…market in information separated from its institutional context. In so doing, May thought anonymous leaks could check the power of institutions like governments and corporations, redistributing it back to individuals….

…and policy responses to drought did not emphasize reducing its use. Conceptualized as an infrastructural event, the drought draws our attention to how Panamanian rainfall, rivers, institutions, and cities are…