…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…

…leading to long-term health problems among DES progeny. Looking at DES with environmentalist glasses as a precursor substance of endocrine disruptors (ED), we see a wide mobilization and a pro-active…

…that forced a response. Since 2011, #OpPigRoast continues to be an ongoing Anonymous action in which information about police officers and police unions is collected, archived, and shared. The doxing…

…first arrival of New World plants like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, vanilla, cocao, and tobacco as they brought familiar (and unfamiliar) species of the Old World—apples, onions, and wheat, but also…

…(Andrews 1996:3-2). The porousness of the state in the global information age accordingly demanded an expansion—a hypertrophy—of state capacities and legal authorities at home and abroad to compensate. The worldwide…

…algorithms. We’re not adept at appreciating what it takes to design a tool like Trends – one that appears to effortlessly identify what’s going on, yet also makes distinct and…

…in Somalia, Nigeria, Libya, and Syria. As such, GhostSec was a humanitarian cause that prevented the territorialization of cyberspace by terrorists. It was a noble cause, a cyber battle, almost…

…that suffer breast cancers and reproductive abnormalities at higher rates than unexposed animals; BPA easily crosses the placenta in humans and other animals, and affects placental cells themselves in terms…

…just awaiting application. 1970s Band-Aid Advertisement. In and of itself, it is hard to argue with a Band-Aid. As anyone who has used one knows, this little strip of adhesive…

…MIT, RPI, and Carnegie Mellon receive vast sums of government and corporate directed research, and entire areas of enquiry (Artificial Intelligence, Aeronautic and Astronautic Engineering) are primarily—in some cases exclusively—funded…

…the Ministry of Health. MOS@N operates in an area where maternal mortality remains a major public health challenge, and where the rates of antenatal care consultation (ANC) attendance and of…

…bellwether is neutral and leaves open that some Arctic actors view climate change as a welcome opportunity. What is asked of a soothsayer can be viewed as a record of…

…and the dubious ways in which Digicel adds and subtracts data from an individual’s balance. Complaints often concern the failure of credits to appear on a person’s phone after a…

…his own: A8: about what? biella: how the medias desire to find a leader says more about a reporters relationship to their editor and certain obsessions within American culture biella:…

…(as a neutral agent: a CPU, as it were) and records the data into memory. The users of the algorithm are the participants: villagers, women, extension agents, etc. They give…

…stimulating rather than a fear and anxiety trap is a move away from a doomsday-automatism linked to propensities of system effects towards a focus on human action and human responsibility….

…and shellfish. This paper examines scientific uses of the Corbicula fluminae as a sentinel organism to detect zinc and cadmium pollution in a lab experiment and along the River Lot….

…when I am reminded of Doña Monterroso’s refrigerator. I am attending a panel focused on disease and global inequality, and though these are issues I care about, the inequality I…

…format with unique identifiers and metadata tags designed to be machine readable, are again a key example), but searchable archives are an important reason why some document caches are able…

…drew attention to the protest. The collective used My.BarackObama.com, sites such as Facebook and YouTube, and blogs to gather and garner resources and press attention in an attempt to get…

…lanes), what to do if a large ruminant (a deer, a cow, even a zebra, because Huawei sold cars all over the world) stepped into the car’s path, and so…

…substantial news or inquiry about the hack and the documents. But all they could offer, along with their skepticism, were many cases of hacktivist interventions (“how about the NASA Wank…

…points of moral action. And like HIV/AIDS, diabetes also shares the market dilemmas of treatment for a lifelong disease that afflicts populations in both high- and low-income countries. In the…

…an in-person affair. The optimal arrangement was a closed loop of back-and-forth messaging and flirting that never went anywhere. Luckily for Avid Life Media, Ashley Madison’s userbase included almost no…

…When my phone collects my GPS data when I run, where does the data go, and what group of people are making the decision that my data will trigger another…

…the cases was whether an inventor had used one of these material prototypes as a means of perfecting an inventive idea or, alternatively, as a means of materializing that idea…