…managers attempted to profit from the proclivities of this touch-point collective by carving out a physical space for its members and formally inviting them to gather there—not to socialize, but…

…sought to serve. He explained to representatives that banks “refuse to open their doors to the poor people who cannot provide collateral” and that “giving money to the poor is…

…sounds of 11 children clanking about the breakfast table and scurrying off to school. He had to make his way to the Port of Conakry to inspect the arriving outre-mer…

…few words were changed in a story about tax cuts. The edits— the government liked to refer to it as the “defacement” — were removed and the article restored to…

…playfulness. Whereas hackers break or build as a means to get to a specific ends (we “break” something to get into “somewhere”), software developers claim that they create just to…

…biased due to their management’s ethnic affiliation. Safaricom, in contrast, employs foreign management to avoid accusations of favoritism. In its public performances, too, it does its best to present itself…

…menhaden. By 2006, that number had fallen to 27 percent, and the survival of osprey nestlings in Virginia had fallen to its lowest levels since the 1940s, when the insecticide…

…say, to focus on reducing the stove emissions harmful to health and climate. To this end, many actors with varied goals have tried to change the way rural people cook…

…HACCP, to ensure food hygiene, constituting a de facto microbiological bunker from which operations can be directed at minimal risk to foreign teams. Ebola too has its Yalta. Figure 3….

…caught on. The company displayed enough marketing imagination to distribute it for free to Boy Scout troops across the country, and by 1924 had begun to offer machine-cut Band-Aids in…

…to collective action problems, in which all members would benefit from some action but the cost to each individual is too great for him or her to undertake it alone….

…virus, the public health understanding of the disease now had to take other elements into consideration: in particular, the extent to which its virulence and transmissibility—its capacity to provoke a…

…firm—my “day job”—I work closely with top executive teams to understand their shoppers and consumers, the world of food, and the store experience, in order to help create prototype retail…

…tournaments, the history of a family by looking at its arms. This knowledge is called heraldic: the capacity to derive from a visual sign the family blood to which it…

…generate random numbers. The resulting 512-bit number is an excellent source of randomness, which is then combined with all the data pertinent to that particular value: the version number, the…

…to establish significance because we’re talking about very small figures. We have to be able to take into consideration things that might appear negligible.” We return to the car, leaving…

…differential risk of disease, it becomes possible to develop targeted interventions to reduce mortality rates. This actuarial logic serves to legitimate political decisions on risk, whether or not the potential…

…Viruses operate on the analogy of biological viruses by inserting a bit of code into a running program which exploits a vulnerability to allow it to replicate, and potentially, to…

…their potential epigenetic harms. However, as biomedical research looks increasingly to experimentally trace the developmental and epigenetic effects of environmental exposures, from nutrition to stress to pollution to exercise to…

…that they wanted you to do what you can do to become your own organizer, to use the tools to organize locally in whatever way you wanted to. They set…

…to understand the kinds of groups made and understood through collaborative filtering, it is essential to wade into its technical form — the algorithms tasked with finding order among individuals….

…of scholarly knowledge from behind paywalls to provide universal access to a common human heritage. A few years later he tried to put his ideas into action by downloading millions…

…Thus it has taken a wonderful yearlong campaign by the Guardian newspaper to get the FBI to agree to put together some kind of centralized database of police killings in…

…in America. By 1909 the number would climb to 2000 plants producing over 15 million tons of ice. 1885: Colonel John Pemberton registers his coca wine nerve tonic, the non-alcoholic…

…process are used to provide guidance on the areas of highest risk, and to devise policies and plans to ensure that systems are appropriately protected. The problem with this risk…

…to hold onto the talent that they had. And that’s not going to change. They’re not going to be able to pay the salaries that the private industry can pay….