…innovation turn is often joined by the embrace of humanitarian design, which is the application of design methods to development ends or—as designers would say—to change what is into what…

…online popularity ended up contributing to former Chancellor Katehi’s resignation. In an attempt to manage UC Davis’s online image, Katehi authorized $175,000 in university funds to scrub the Internet of…

…controversial issues and mobilized official health agencies on specific topics. Réseau-DES was also responsible for the release of the first patient-focused brochure in 2008. France’s policy concerning maternity leave for…

…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…

…“horrified by ISIS’s atrocities” and concerned by the inability of governments to counter ISIS online: The FBI has repeatedly admitted that. So, we got involved in #OpISIS in order to…

…documents, and other files, the hackers leaked this information, which became the basis for a series of investigative pieces detailing how this spying software is used by “lawyers, teachers, construction…

…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…

…done with it? Is the toolkit a device for enticing participation, for improving it, or for something else? What imagination drove its form and function, and can we learn anything…

…cyber collection, such as inhibiting detection or attribution, even if they create cyber effects” (Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-20: 2-3). The bland term ‘cyber effects’ is defined as “the manipulation, disruption,…

…Lowe argued that the punch card tabulation system used for the Bombing Encyclopedia would make it possible to organize and access this massive amount of data with greater efficiency, accuracy,…

…more than 138,000 congenital syphilis cases and more than 148,000 stillbirths annually. A test that could be performed with no laboratory infrastructure could prevent more than 201,000 congenital syphilis cases…

…online infrastructures, shaping the relations between persons and things and articulating new collective forms, they demand attention, not only as material for analysis, but as new modes of analysis itself….

…policy advisors available for an online discussion. Dealing with this newly independent collective was frustrating for many staffers, who saw this organizing as distracting supporters from their electoral work. Yet,…

…disturbances to the specimens must be minimized to isolate the ones caused by pollutants. For this reason, paying attention to their specific needs, i.e. learning to understand what matters for…

…an important prerequisite for collective action and social change. Though DeTar is a PhD candidate at MIT, the Institute (where I taught for 10 years) is not a hotbed of…

…of numerical happiness indices. But what is gained and what is lost in moving from a financial to an affective economy? Does it, as its advocates argue, signal a new…

…pays the government £50 for each student who sits a particular exam, and £100 for each one who passes it. This kind of fixation on measurable results creates a proliferation…

…called ISIL? ISIS? IS? What did Da’esh even mean? It had all been a big mess back when I was in kindergarten, and then it had settled down… Until now….

…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…

…Arctic is a bellwether for, the answer provided is that “climate change is a national and international security interest in the traditional strategic sense.” The heightened anxiety/opportunism announced by the…

…this is easier for new hidden services than for existing hidden services (Cox 2015). It is crucial that the Tor Project is always informed of the exploit even before it…

…systemic risk debate as studied in this essay is reduced to a distressing limbo state of not-safe-but-waiting-for-destruction/disaster, a disaster, which is construed as inevitable. But one of the great lessons…

…product is accompanied by its known carcinogens and a history of legal cover-ups. “This is a cybernetic datum derived from records not intended for publication,” the notes say. “This has…

…curators have used them alongside other similarly vulnerable materials in a demonstration project called E-MELD that is designed to create both a repository and an infrastructure for the management of…

…process, we chose to use a detergent that did not use this dye. This is how the home-made spectrometer was useful for us, and I look forward to more ways…

…who might follow his lead. His pitch is simple, promises much, and asks little of donors and aid agencies. The focus is on loans that are funded mainly by borrowers’…

…this choice. LCA, this way, is used to produce credibility internal to DSM, which is in line with the arguments of Freidberg (see this issue). LCAs thus compete with economic…