…shape of the world surrounding them. Columbus claims the New World, painting by John Vanderlyn, 1847. 1650s-1680s: A Taste for Luxury: The first coffeehouses spread from the Muslim world (through…

…mitigate such catastrophes in the future. The term systemic risk was coined on the onset of the Latin American debt crisis of the early 1980s by William Cline, an international…

…the World Bank dedicated its 1997 flagship World Development Report to the “rediscovery” of the state after two decades of denigrating or denying its role, the report was also very…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…understood as “a deadly race to bring American resources up to capacity while simultaneously reducing those in Germany” (Katz 1989:104). In the same fashion, a future war would be won…

…The executive board room of the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) received much of the criticism; the organization learned of the outbreak in March but did not…

…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…

…(the state of the world, the mysteries of the cosmos), but the state of the world itself (the fact that the world still exists as we speak) that provides information…

…an Army General. Nor could international organizations augment American resources: “At all times the infectious disease unit at WHO is running on a shoestring,” said an international health official. As…

…like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, editorials and scientific papers in medical journals like The Lancet, and policy documents and pamphlets prepared by aid agencies, health…

It was 1965: televisions were blaring, and Alan Lomax was worried. As Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, and Bewitched capered into tangerine family rooms, the famous American…

…other unofficial disclosures of information that are the journalist’s stock in trade is not the amount of information disclosed to journalists, but the amount of original source material made accessible…

…but because it was cop stuff, it was ruggedized, with black and yellow rubber bumpers, because apparently being a cop makes you a klutz. I snuck a look at the…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…federal charges for this mission on behalf of what came to be known as “fake news.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emerged with a seven-point plan to tame “fake news”…

…context of blood transfusion. The humble setting of Mourant’s clearing house belied its lofty ambitions. Announcing the new Centre, the U.S. magazine Science News-Letter claimed that blood-group data would offer…

…a “legitimate intelligence target” (American Interest 2016; Gilman et.al 2017). Characterizing the Chinese infiltration as illegal hacking or warfare would challenge the legitimacy of state-sanctioned hacking for acquiring information and…

…up as an analytical source by news organizations can signal against its reliability as a primary source to other mainstream journalistic news organizations and simultaneously signal its attractiveness to conspiracy…

…slow-paced international response to the outbreaks in West Africa. Initial cases in late March garnered a speedy response, with a whole host of international experts descending on the scene in…

…is more complicated than this. Not long after independence, the government of Myanmar, then known as Burma, convened a group of planners, policymakers, and economists—led by the American engineering firm…

…“6 things Americans should fear more than Ebola” (Schwartz 2014), Humanosphere’s “5 diseases Americans should fear way more than Ebola” (Murphy 2014), and Cracked’s “5 Reasons America Can Calm the…

…liberal values. This explains some of the purchase these programs have among a familiar cast of decidedly liberal “development partners” like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and even…

…into the atmosphere. There is a fair amount of scary sensationalism on this point, with activist publics signaling somewhat frantically toward an unlikely runaway greenhouse effect. Notably, the final feedback…

…own book Public Opinion 1935–1946 summarized other haphazard attempts to uncover the origins of happiness: in 1940, the American Institute for Public Research asked people to choose between “wealth, a…

…Assessments” from around the world (Green 2014; World Bank 2001). Alongside the World Bank Development Sourcebook (World Bank 1996) and a range of other handbooks and sourcebooks and kits, the…

…In the infosec world there’s sort of a fetish for technical achievements. And it’s understandable, it’s not the only field. But sometimes this fetish for the latest, amazing zero-day, or…

…to curbside rubbish, these online scraps are legally ambiguous for civilian doxing. This Place Is Starting to Smell What was once a specialized tactic of punks, journalists, unions, police, phreaks,…

…such as the American Medical Association. Certification became a valuable currency for jobseekers, but it continued to derive its credibility from the darker and more mysterious worlds of the military…