…and predictable, they are disciplined, like a Roman legion. Political managers code these differences as a problem of class. Social media users participate freely and therefore nothing binds them to…

…paradigmatic infrastructure state, yet it is also paradigmatic of the state of infrastructure today: a complex juxtaposition of sites that generate publics and counterpublics and which, taken together, confound straightforward…

…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…

…unlike Rat performing in his electronic maze, which to an expert audience once clearly dramatized a vision of possible futures, most onlookers today are still not interested in seeing this….

…population, overcrowded cities, human intrusions into previously uninhabited areas, civil wars leading to crowded refugee camps, and commercial travel that could rapidly spread diseases around the world. Today, more than…

…the goal is to mobilize efforts to save local species and promote biodiversity as part of broader efforts at preserving territorial and historical integrity. This public injunction has led naturalist…

Thanks to the development of new methods at the interface of ecology and chemistry first pioneered in the 1970s, environmental sensors such as sentinel organisms are today used to detect…

…pattern of disease that it did, scientists today can explain why climate change is causing the observed pattern of extreme weather events. Carbon dioxide traps energy in the earth’s atmosphere….

…the government issued a Voluntary Surrender Act – note the military vocabulary – to close poultry farms in Hong Kong, only thirty enterprises remain today in what used to be…

…just one of many instances when conflicting LCA studies raised more doubts than they resolved. Today, though, corporate interest in LCA is booming, especially in the food business. Advances in…

…its own online encrypted anonymizing submission system, whose approach is now used, via the hacker-coded GlobaLeaks and SecureDrop open source software, also by several major news organizations such as Associated…

…at Flyger and Schein’s ill-fated efforts on the Arctic ice in 1966 and the context in which they took place helps to put today’s disputes over polar bears and polar…

…can happen – and in fact happens more readily – in reduced spaces: in the “white rooms” of focus groups, deliberative experiments, and group-therapeutic settings.[6] Democracy survives today in greenhouses…

…More widely enduring was the ‘Guthrie’ card, invented in the early 1960s by US clinical microbiologist Robert Guthrie for testing newborns for the genetic condition phenylketonuria. Today, Guthrie Cards are…

…said, “we know little more about distribution today than Napoleon’s contemporaries knew about the interior of Africa.” Military and colonial metaphors pervade the field even in its civilian form, and…

…journalist Nick Kristoff titled “America Is Flint.” “Today the continuing poisoning of half a million American children is tolerated,” Kristoff writes, “partly because the victims often are low-income children of…

…predator demand. Striped bass have long been one of the most voracious predators of menhaden on the East Coast. Today, many striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay are afflicted with…

…from the Academy of Pumbeditha in Iraq. Today, however, the Genizah Collection is as famous for its documentary material—Schechter’s “secular record office”—as for its Bibles and liturgies. The earliest documents…

…Today we face unprecedented challenges, and so we need to rethink strategies and re-evaluate tactics. In traditional activism, the concept of “bearing witness” is central. It is the practice of…

…of May ‘68. As it spread through the social sciences around 1970, it was considered “leftist” just as econometric techniques, one the other hand, were thought of as “rightist.” Today…

…2014). In addition, advocates of humanitarian design point out that the complexity and fast-paced nature of today’s development challenges calls for innovative, creative, and integrative experts—designers in short—who are best…

…the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank. Unsnapped and opened, it reveals a set of 25 folders and a booklet: “Each individual envelope is coded with a…

…coalition was Hermann Scheer, the member of Parliament chiefly responsible for devising new legislation promoting renewable energy. Scheer believed that beyond benefits for the economy and the environment, the promotion…

…reflected in the statistic that more people in the world today have access to a mobile phone than a safe and clean toilet (United Nations 2013). As such, the toilet…

…samples would travel in coolers or liquid nitrogen Dewar flasks held on the laps of researchers as they flew back from the field. Today, the biospecimen—both cryopreserved as well as…