…hallmarks of humanitarian goods. Amplifying Development In 2014, DFID’s i-Hub contracted IDEO.org to the tune of £10 million to develop and implement its flagship program, Amplify (www.amplify.org). Amplify is a…

…wildlife.” (Wingspread Declaration, 1991) In April 1970, Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully reported in Cancer the identification of six definitive cases of cell vaginal cancer in girls and young women…

…terrorist organizations. Online, Anonymous created a campaign, “Operation Charlie Hebdo” or #OpCharlieHebdo, to take down terrorist organizations related to the attack: We will track you everywhere on the planet, nowhere…

…online; he reportedly received 17,000 emails, 10,000 texts, hundreds of voicemails, and lots of unwanted mail.[12] UC Davis paid $1 million to victims of Pike’s assault. More curious though, Pike’s…

…et al. 2010). Elsewhere, attempts to test the effects of certain micronutrients or endocrine disruptors on developing or newborn mice have accidentally focused attention on the biological effects of standard…

…typical: At exactly 11am today, I entered two K5 flex numbers: 01 7249 490 5910 & 16 2662 659 3637. At exactly 11:14am, Digicel sent me two messages: 1. Advised…

…at MIT, between an NPR interviewer and NYU computer science professor Peter Belhumeur: NPR: Do you get government funding in part? PH: Yes. NPR: From DARPA or one of those?…

…selective audience;” Pizza Preciosa, with a wholemeal crust and vegetable topping, was aimed at “women aged 15-40 focusing on health, body and appearance. Vegetarians” (171-2). The work of the marketers,…

…100-150 active implants to simultaneously managing thousands of implanted targets” (SID Today 2004a:2). According to Matthew Aid, NSA had built tools (and adopted easily available open source tools) for scanning…

Thanks to the development of new methods at the interface of ecology and chemistry first pioneered in the 1970s, environmental sensors such as sentinel organisms are today used to detect…

…are particularly concerned about two types of system effects: cascades and surprise effects. Cascade effects are those that produce a chain of events that cross geography, time, and various types…

…“membership card” for KES 100 (USD $1.35), which allowed them a month’s access to the toilet. The toilet was meant to be self-sustaining, with revenues from memberships and UV-filtered municipal…

…to deliver on the “Full Delete” promise: “[Avid Life Media] management is bullshit and has made millions of dollars from complete 100% fraud.” But the Impact Team’s strategy was not…

…a “20-year veteran of the Canadian military” who was a “jovial version of a drill sergeant” (Schoenberger 2003: 119) Her class consisted of 18 men and 2 women from both…

…in 1971. Yunus was an economics professor at Chittagong University on Bangladesh’s southern coast when in 1974 the country experienced a deep famine. Yunus set out to create an informal…

…each of these terms invites a topological relation to planetary information (Blok 2011; Law and Mol 2001). For example, Paul Edwards writes of climate models “shimmering” with uncertainty (Edwards 2011:…

…[1] “Tor is a low-latency anonymity-preserving network that enables its users to protect their privacy online” and enables “anonymous communication” (AlSabah et al., 2012: 73). The Tor p2p network is…

…a feature of voluntaristic organizations. As Chen argues, the challenge of voluntarism is in crafting hybrid organizational forms that mix “collectivist and bureaucratic practices, but avoid exercising coercive control” (21)….

…Census Bureau, ODM had recorded on computer tapes a vast amount of information about the US economy and population: “the precise location, shipments and employment of approximately 20,000 manufacturing plants…

…a package, are colorful (implied) health claims about the food’s appealing qualities—“All Natural,” “ORGANIC,” “100% REAL,” or “Clinically PROVEN to Help Reduce Cholesterol,”—which sit alongside more conventional marketplace puffery: “ORIGINAL”…

…The Sanger Center bought 30 of the new ABI capillary sequencing machines at $300,000 apiece; Eric Lander at the Broad Institute bought 125. In 1999, the year after Venter launched…

…1961): where physical and human resources present in institutions, corporations, or organizations “accumulate and then widen and alter the possibilities of political action” (Burns 1961:281). If the managing director or…

…78,000 target listings (Clinard 1959:89). Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated technologies for data handling were developed: magnetic tapes replaced punch cards; digital computers replaced tabulators. Although the name changed (today it is…

…“more than 100,000 bulletins directly to the appropriate editors and producers,” proved ineffectual (Harris 2003: 158). Later in the year, spurred by research enabled by the documents, the New York…

…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…