…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…

…by the “French NIH” (INSERM) issued recommendations outlining how to support and inform patients. But these recommendations remained a dead letter despite the scientists’ conclusion that 160,000 children had been…

…a language of the Hmong-Mien family spoken by some 21,000 people in southern China. Compiled during a four-month research trip to Guangxi Province in 1982, they were filed away in…

…in the region. While the City of Knowledge has yet to appear, by the end of 2015, 80% of Mexico’s installed wind power capacity, 2,300 megawatts, was located in the…

…about cloud computing and big data settle into recognizable, if no less nebulous fog banks of enthusiasm or anxiety. Or consider the Arab Spring of 2011, and the anniversary of…

…Democratic National Convention emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 Colin Powell emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 John Podesta emails Guccifer 2.0 2016 Cellebrite documents and circumvention tools Unknown 2017 Retina and FlexiSpy source…

…Yet guerrilla labeling is widespread enough to have prompted the food industry to lobby for its criminalization. In the United States, the Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002 (S. 1223,…

…Theillaumas visited the United States to obtain a victimology diploma at Washington University in 1990. In 1996, when she was back in France, a series of suicides among the police…

…other words, there are no more secrets.” He will bring down every rotten institution, expose every lie, open government to the governed. “As of today, whatever you want to know,…

…and of … communities and citizens” (link). Resilience is also prominently mentioned in recent Homeland Security policy documents, including the 2010 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, which lists “Ensuring Resilience to…

…As a global institution, the WHO’s fundamental mission is to promote health and equal access to health care no matter where individuals are located on the world map. But as…

…and now superstorms, only 20-30% of Americans over the past two decades have indicated to pollsters they were “quite concerned” about climate change. As of September 2012, only 36% thought…

…of scale; pasteurization meant that cheese could be safely made from older milk that had traveled greater distances. Today, cheese destined for the dairy case (or a pizza, for that…

…Alaska put it, “based on tenuous assumptions and extrapolation of fragmentary data” (Delegation of the United States, 1966: 45). Global estimates ranged from a low of 5,000 to a high…

…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…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…on ecosystems at a global scale (Law et al., 2010). In 2011, an emblematic mark of that recognition came from the United Nation Environmental Program (UNEP) that featured marine plastic…

…push to bring precision, flexible manufacturing back to the United States, one of the Obama administration’s economic goals in 2010 (Science and Technology Policy Institute 2010). When asked to identify…

…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…

…moral energy, as well as the financial and organizational resources, being devoted to inventing and disseminating such micro-endeavors today. It asks: What does the proliferation of such small devices tell…

…in Brighton, Birmingham, and Cambridgeshire; a Thames Tideway tunnel; 160,000 houses built on public land; five new prisons; a “world-class” public health laboratory; a nuclear reactor on the west coast…

…in the world. More than 7,000 city employees distribute nearly 3.5 billion liters of water daily by managing more than 4,000 kilometers of pipe. Their work makes possible the lives…

…a real world that’s been utterly transformed while you were blissfully unaware. But you do get better at recognizing it. When the final bell rang 3,000 students (me included) poured…

…Is Stuxnet [2010] a case of such a threshold, or the DNC [Democratic National Committee] hack? Since you’ve been doing this for a long time, maybe you have a particular…

…on the Greek islands to shelter newly arrived refugees in 2015, and it came with the backing of the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, who purchased 15,000 units for distribution…

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…