…on climate, but also water, land, air, and natural resources. At least for some, LCA has become part of the information infrastructure used both to manage global supply chains and…

…action on the sugars and proteins in milk generates the aromas and flavors and textures that say “cheese” to us. The process of cheese “becoming” does not end once curd…

…security of control systems are degradation, failure, and accident; second, human users; and finally—and least likely and damaging of all—intrusion or “attack.” And many attacks are really exploiting human beings…

…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…

…effective in raising a broader set of questions and problems, from the spatial, material, and embodied practices of sanitation and the concerns for personal privacy, safety, and separation from disease…

…to those of its other customers, or Demand Media commissions news based on aggregate search queries (Anderson 2011), their accuracy and relevance depend on the promise of an algorithmic calculation…

…argues that content “should not be hidden from Internet users seeking truthful and relevant information,” and that the ruling “runs counter to the ethos and values of the Wikimedia movement”…

…world—Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library, and the University of Michigan, to begin—and to make those books accessible online. The news astonished interested observers, eliciting both fear and…

…hinterland and neighboring Guinea. In August, alarming news came from the eastern region of Sierra Leone: “Reports appear to indicate that the outbreak is assuming the proportion of an epidemic”;…

…upgraded with communication and information technologies. The smart grid, as imagined by engineers, also corresponds to an enhanced marketplace where communication and information technologies serve to better balance supply and…

…such an outbreak. On the one hand it possesses a well-developed set of protocols and a logistics system designed for emergency response. On the other hand it operates as independently…

…of passion, desperation, boredom, horniness, obsession, and jubilation on your computers, phones and the internet. Maybe you’re the government, maybe you’re just some innocent schmuck—maybe you’re both. Maybe you don’t…

…badge-sized camera equipped with light, temperature, and position sensors. Based on the sensors, it determines when to take a picture and record information. The SenseCam was initially designed in 2004…

…of government, business, education and religion, and its celebration of tools that would enable the “individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and…

…steadily grown since the 1990s between the police on the one hand and social scientists and activists on the other (Didier 2011). In the US, the first whistle-blower alerting the…

…burning a curious hand and to reduce heat loss to the surroundings, it is built to accommodate common cooking surfaces (tavas and pots) and meals perfectly, and it doesn’t require…

…in context and specificity. Whereas distillation of the core elements of a social formation for purposes of analysis and comparison is well accepted, reduction in the service of replication and…

…access to air travel which facilitated the collection and circulation of blood samples; new computing technology for handling large amounts of data; and the creation of new international organizations, such…

…relationship. The technology of crowd production enables instantaneous contracting and compensation, personalized workspaces, and – most unusually – the integration of work into other online activity, such as gaming or…

…is no injunction to disinfection: guests can enter unhindered. The Palm Camayenne is one of the rare hotels in Conakry that offers western-style accommodations and 24 hours of electricity and…

…Between 2003 and 2009 the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) delegated a team of World Bank–appointed management consultants, Castalia Advisors, to reform and “improve” the distribution regime in one…

…I told one Anon that I would like to write an anthropological piece on journalist’s obsession with leaders. During this private conversation, he followed with a question and comment of…

…The word derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον (prototypon), “primitive form”, neutral of πρωτότυπος (prototypos), “original, primitive”, from πρῶτος (protos), “first” and τύπος (typos), “impression”.(Online Etymology Dictionary) Prototype as a re-presentation.…

…multiple sizes. BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandage ad from 1920, showing the product as Earle Dickson invented it. Image: Johnson & Johnson Archives. At the time of Dickson’s innovation, Johnson &…