…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…and for the more than 2,000 future connections to the water line. On that basis, it proposed a slightly amended extraction rate. Community members, activists, and NGOs challenged the certainty…

…Figure 3: The Bridging Berm. The diagram shows the flood level of Hurricane Sandy (bottom blue line) and the FEMA 100 year flood plain projection for 2050 (middle blue line)….

…vernacular infrastructure for development design. With public health campaigns around the world driven by the United Nations Millennial Development Goals of eradicating open defecation (United Nations 2006), Ashaiman’s DBPTs suggest…

…called International Aid Services (IAS) acquired the Peepoople brand, vowing to keep the dream alive. At the time the user base consisted of some 20,000 people living in the Kibera…

…300,000 and kill 5,000 every year in West Africa, hardly receives any attention at all.[1] Nevertheless, in a recent Gallup poll, Americans ranked Ebola third when asked to name “the…

…responsibility: the proof is that at a WHO vaccine meeting at the end of October, the United Kingdom and the United States sent their health ministers, whereas the French “only”…

…confirm the long wave transformation. They draw on studies of 484 species (or groups) for phenological changes and 460 species for range distribution and community composition. Eighty seven percent of…

…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…

…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…

…technology, the greater is the potential for harm as well (Kelly 2010:246). Sure enough, we soon observed the same technology of liberation become a tool for repression. It was inevitable,…

…as they were carrying whole blood to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The blood was being sent to Liberia…

…more than 138,000 congenital syphilis cases and more than 148,000 stillbirths annually. A test that could be performed with no laboratory infrastructure could prevent more than 201,000 congenital syphilis cases…

…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…

…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…

…(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…

…(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…

…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…

…and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest. If you have a problem with me, piss off” (Zetter and Poulsen 2010)….

…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…