…helped raise the alarm over BPA, now an acronym that floats through the consciousness of the Western consumer today. The story of how BPA or bisphenol-A, an organic compound used…

…500 cases, all of them potentially fatal, had been discovered during an extensive survey of only 9,500 persons.[2] There were the usual journalists’ approximations about African geography: it was written…

…be “better” in a Middle Eastern refugee camp, but not in a Western European reception facility. It may be “better” when funds are plentiful and refugee numbers limited, but not…

…surgeon, a Russian cultural minister, the Walt Disney Company, and the U.S. military. Ultimately, the Choreometrics team gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw footage, representing 2,000 different communities. Each…

Panier du 20 mai 2011, http://amapetang.blogspot.com/ Like every Thursday afternoon, Celine’s two kids are exited, because Thursday is the jour du Panier (“basket day”). At 6 p.m., Celine and her…

…by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Included in this cache were nearly 1,000 emails and 3,000 other documents. The cache…

…“all the markings of state-sponsored attack.” The breach had resulted, USIS said, in the disclosure of about 25,000 federal employees’ records. One can only imagine the difficult conversations that must…

…a mesh of proxy servers where the data is bounced through relays, or nodes. As of this writing, more than 7,000 relays enable the transferral of data, applying “onion routing”…

…a flow rate of −5,000 CFS to be between 50% and 60%. Based on these findings, Fish and Wildlife Service regulators released their determination to the Bureau of Reclamation on…

…and we get overwhelmed. And everyone gets—readers get overwhelmed too. And if you dump 3,000 emails, you’re just going to get a certain level of attention. If you do it…

…large numbers For a small start up, managing a workforce of 60,000 people may seem an insurmountable challenge. Yet this is the challenge faced by large-scale requesters. Requesters building on…

…kind of vulnerabilities that we [LulzSec] were exploiting at Fortune 500 companies, I don’t think that there is a lack of technology or knowledge in place to stop vulnerabilities from…

…the “democratic atmosphere” or “democratic social climate,” decisions about the nature and trajectory of the task were made by the group, children were free to associate themselves with whomever they…

…If the top step is 10 and the bottom step is 0, on which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time? (Gallup 2015)….

…a proposal to flood a new lake linked to the canal, which would displace an estimated 2,000 people in the process.[4] Figure 3: During a drought in 2015, Panamanian President…

…given source archive by human error, which constitute “dirty data” (Maddodi et al. 2010:664). The distinction between what makes data untranslatable, requiring schema extraction, and what specifically renders it dirty…

…technology, the greater is the potential for harm as well (Kelly 2010:246). Sure enough, we soon observed the same technology of liberation become a tool for repression. It was inevitable,…

…Nearly 30,000 policemen were mobilized to secure waste transports against as many as 10,000 anti-nuclear activists positioned along their path. Anti-Castor protestors occupy railway tracks near Gorleben, 2010. Theories of…

…energy, and the security of supply. They signal the need to improve connectivity across a geographical space. More than half (60%) of the 100 bottlenecks that the TYNDP (European Network…

…from a continuous stream of “live data” that is overwhelming in its volume and detail? “We’ve got 20,000 [behavioral] models per second, streaming off the floor,” remarks Javier Saenz, vice…

…promise and enthusiastic investment. Chimeras—monstrous, hybrid, or simply fantastical—tend to be figures of liminality. Their importance is heightened in moments when someone or something sits betwixt and between social categories…

Micro-hydropower technologies—systems that harness the energy in flowing water to produce between 5 and 100 kilowatts of electricity—have proven to be a particularly attractive kind of “little development device” in…

…who have been able to travel between makeshift treatment camps in Africa and the resource-rich laboratories and medical centers in the Global North have been frustrated to realize that perceptions…

…evidences, lead by a kind of unwitting cooperation between eco-activists, the media, politicians and scientists. But, the hermetic ethical barriers between these poles of the debate are just apparent: With…

…million yet with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants (see Shepard 2015). Kangbashi district, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. Photo: Wikimedia These cases show how infrastructure in China shapes the praxis of urban…

…(BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans. BSE had afflicted more than 36,000 cattle by 1992, and the British government responded by culling more than 100,000 cattle. BSE was an…