…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…

…of psou, today there are 60 psychologists working under her. The number of requests for help has risen dramatically. The unit proposes different kinds of action, which, according to madame…

…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…

…away: they release their source code, their databases, and their catalogs; they put up the metadata and the digitalized files on file-sharing networks. They realize that exclusive ownership/control over any…

…The Sanger Center bought 30 of the new ABI capillary sequencing machines at $300,000 apiece; Eric Lander at the Broad Institute bought 125. In 1999, the year after Venter launched…

…state institution has operated the canal since 2000. Since then, the ACP, like its U.S. predecessor, has been responsible for the administration, maintenance, and use of regional water resources. Today,…

…(ESB Rangoon nd:10–11). The Pyidawtha Plan resonated widely in the 1950s, even if the plan itself—a sprawling and highly technical document exceeding 800 pages, written in English and printed in…

…serves the poor in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel co-winner), he also crafted a global vision for funding entrepreneurs and tirelessly promoted it for three decades. Muhammad Yunus at…

…of “just a click away” data available on mobile or stationary devices. As a result, hundreds of libraries around the world acquired the prototype of some 20,000 miniature pages, even…

…is not mine, but that of a number of actors in and analysts of New York (Sassen 2007, Vitale 2008, Interview with O’Boyle 2010). After the September 11 attacks, all…

…online; he reportedly received 17,000 emails, 10,000 texts, hundreds of voicemails, and lots of unwanted mail.[12] UC Davis paid $1 million to victims of Pike’s assault. More curious though, Pike’s…

…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…

…mayor noted that, by his office’s calculus, 600,000 city residents were unqualified for jobs in the twenty-first century information and innovation-focused economy (Nutter 2012a, 2012b). As a result, residents first…

…birds (auspices), played a significant role in legends of foundation, and was re-enacted for important political decisions—no important decision was taken without consulting the auguri. Today, the founding of a…

…modes of figuring the collective at the heart of new information technologies today. It is not the same crowd of Le Bon, though a comparison would no doubt prove fascinating….

Have you ever heard of the “garbage patches” that float in the middle of the oceans? Yes, presumably. Marine litter is today is considered one key element of human impact…

…the 1990s, also transforming in character. Whereas Guatemalan supermarkets once provided high-end luxury goods, they now focus on mass-produced, processed foods. A massive store, today owned by Walmart, was a…

…78,000 target listings (Clinard 1959:89). Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated technologies for data handling were developed: magnetic tapes replaced punch cards; digital computers replaced tabulators. Although the name changed (today it is…

…(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…

The 2010 Colombian presidential race revealed the tensions between not merely two candidates, but two different forms of leveraging political power. Juan Manuel Santos, the heir of two-term president Alvaro…

…5, 2013, a bit before noon, they also began producing standard random objects at a rate of one per minute: strings of 512 bits of entropy, broadcast every 60 seconds….

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…

…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…

…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…