…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…

…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…

…the words “Warning May Contain GMOs,” and a QR code or URL directing the consumer to websites with additional information about genetically modified foods. Figure 2. Early LIY label template….

…manuscripts) that itself is a whopping 32 megabytes big.[2] A total of 137,000 class marks delineate 193,000 Genizah fragments: in some cases these fragments are tiny scraps, with only a…

…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…

…standardization of what amounted to torture – for by this point some 21,000 interrogation had been routinely performed under exacting bureaucratic standards. Instead the debate ended up revolving around whether…

…between rebel factions and the ruling government of the fictional country of Changa, 200,000 refugees fled to neighboring countries where they faced starvation and disease. Hundreds of US Peace Corps…

…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…

…of “journalists, activists, communication-technology hackers” who “are exerting significant influence in today’s media environment through innovation and media competence” (2016: 9-10). At the current stage, it is important to point…

…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…

…and 5000 birds in 1997. Lethal in humans, this virus appeared to be a candidate for the next great pandemic, though ultimately the difficulty of transmission between humans limited its…

…predecessors, and driving 800,000 less miles per year: “that’s 300 less coast-to-coast hauls!” says the narrator (assuming roughly 3000 miles per haul, it would be closer to 160 hauls, but…

…Fairbanks for the first international scientific meeting on the polar bear. The meeting was motivated by alarming claims that fewer than 8,000 bears remained worldwide and by concern about the…

…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…

…recruitment began, The Times announced that the service had registered its first 100,000 donors (1939). This offered the potential for quantities of genetic data on a hitherto unimagined scale. Fisher’s…

…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…

…funded plan to take down 40,000 derelict structures. Those coordinating the demolitions put in place measures to suppress the spread of demolition dust, which typically comprises a range of heavy…

…of ‘piracy’, and even the national border (see Cowen 2010). Because it is oriented towards threats that may be impossible to predict, supply chain security mobilizes pre-emption techniques to mitigate…

…It was December 2010, and my plans were simple: finish my book manuscript on the politics of free and open-source software hacking and spend time with my family on an…

…freezer contains books that forecast what tomorrow would be, such as Future Shock, the famous bestseller written by Alvin Toffler in 1970. Written 20 or 30 years ago, the content…

…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…

…bootcamp, usually held in Nairobi or Kampala, and receive upwards of £100,000 in DFID funding and IDEO design support to implement their ideas. To date, seven challenges have been completed,…

The Participatory Development Toolkit is a “small briefcase (26 x 33 x 10 cm) containing 221 activity cards, 65 pictures, 11 charts, 1 guidebook”; it is “covered in brown pattered…

…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…