…rot away silently. Interview with Report Bee CEO Ananth Mani (Kirk, 2011) In September 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi—once banned from the United States for his apparent role in…

…than observing daily cooking in village homes, but was more realistic than testing in ideal lab conditions. These tests showed a 31% reduction in large (~10 μm) particulate matter, which…

…identical. For example, one might compare the case files of “Jim Beam, born 3/12/1945” to that of “Tim Beat, born 2/12/1945” and that of “Joachim Beam, born 3/12/1944.” All this…

…towards a unique historical resource to help determine the scale of preparations necessary for managing a possible epidemic: freezers filled with blood. Blood serum samples from human and non-human populations…

…media in 2011, with Exxon signing a long-term Arctic exploration agreement with the Russian state petroleum firm Rosneft, with an indicative value of some $500 billion. That’s not small change…

…development in Africa not just “models for” derived from technical abstractions and ideal types with the Global North as reference point. Injecting “models of” drawn from on-the-ground conditions into the…

…government. Information enters archives, but it also escapes them. The perfect total archive would leave no question unanswered, no gene unsequenced, no seed unsaved, no phone call unheard, no book…

…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…

…it for real and normally do not poke their heads up too often. Be practical, not certified” (Bort, 2008). Asked about the ethical hacker certification in 2003, one “black-hat” hacker…

…want microfinance if it fails to deliver on its promises? The problem is not with its device-ness but with its portrayal. The practice of microfinance is distinct from the narrative…

…not something that can be learned in 20 minutes. PPE also hampers existing skills. One cannot listen to lungs or put in an IV easily while wearing the so-called “moon…

…collected from more than 50 countries (Figure 1). Figure 1. One of nine fold-out maps in Arthur Mourant’s The Distribution of the Human Blood Groups (1954), indicating the world frequency…

…no longer tenable, and there it was running in circles in an endless loop from which it could never emerge without external input: it was stuck in a “vicious circle,…

…the first five challenges are based in the Global South, 24 of 30 have a connection to the Global North, with 19 to the United States. Close to 50% of…

…2012). Nonetheless, sales of fish oil pills grew from $100 million in 2001 to $1.1 billion in 2011 (Frost & Sullivan Research Service 2008; Herper 2009; Packaged Facts 2011). The…

…camera network was hacked and infected with ransomware that, city officials admitted two weeks later, prevented the city from digitally recording images from 80% of the cameras for three days…

…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,…

…transfers the sheets to the second pot which holds molten tin. They remain immersed from two to five minutes, and their surface forms an amalgam with the tin (Dunbar 1915:10)….

…world, the LHC is a machine that accumulates superlatives: 100 meters under the ground, particles are accelerated to 99.9999991% of the speed of light, execute some 11245 rotations around the…

…“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…

…situations demand new magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 513)   The origin of the humble Band-Aid offers enticing material for corporate legend. In 1920, Earle Dickson was a cotton buyer for the…

…14, and Guccifer 2.0 came out on June 15. But it’s important to note that there was another website, also linked to Russia, that started leaking stuff before that. The…

…A non-existent sentinel group: DES-exposed progeny Understanding the non-existence of sentinel populations in the DES case first requires exploring prescription patterns in the 1950s and 1960s in France. In the…