…vote. How can everyone be sure you’re using actually random numbers to choose the districts? If you get to select the numbers, you could rig the election. So you use…

…than happy to advise the British. Gaston Muraz, head of the service, personally came to Gueckedou to meet with Lourie, and took him in the field to witness the functioning…

…routine use of text messages to remind, nudge, and discipline users. Tracing the stylistics of Safaricom’s power reveals more than the aesthetic registers at play in Kenya. It demonstrates how…

…was operationalized to promote Philadelphia and IBM’s innovative, entrepreneurial capacity, without taking into account how to actively achieve the goals of the plan. The parameters of success as planned by…

…to king Priam reversed the course of the Trojan War. In the myth, the spectacular free seductions of the container—the horse—served as a voluntary means to introduce a hidden content:…

…the toilet is an unsuitable place to visit, use, let alone to hang around (Thieme 2010). IkoToilets are intended to provide a significant step-change in the quality of public toilets…

…visible both China’s financial might and vulnerabilities. Infrastructure projects are spurred to ever-greater heights to keep the economy growing. The Chinese state used infrastructure investment to successfully stimulate the economy…

…etc. Such objects are far too large and complex for a guy in a tent in a village to inquire into. The other problem that “concept work” addresses is the…

…Luis Borges’ Aleph – the object or “point in space” that opens out to reveal a whole universe – we can begin to see how a work of art can…

…assisted delivery are relatively low. It aims to pilot the use of mobile devices to improve the use of health care services by pregnant women. MOS@N sends voice medical appointment…

…25 million books in more than 400 languages.[2] Although it is hard to know for certain how many books exist to be digitized, 25 to 30 million certainly represent a…

…millions of Facebook users (through the neat trick of getting Amazon Turkers to give access to their profiles, an access that extended exponentially to all their “friends” in the business)…

…presumed geographical unity of Europe with an unbound topology of a highly fragmented common. We use the notion of topology to draw attention to the fact that infrastructural spaces are…

…get those eggs onto the behemoth’s shelves. Needless to say, it’s a lot. And, as the video goes on to explain, every year the company has to throw away 5…

…for morbidity and mortality. Several lengthy and costly large-scale epidemiological studies failed to show the link. It was only the introduction of cholesterol-lowering drugs into research that managed to deliver…

…relating to DES should provide the necessary model to anticipate threats posed by other substances to animal and human development. However, the previous history of this molecule shows a complete…

…early years of this push to create long-term repositories were used to make a case for the African origins of hiv. Historian Edward Hooper has described how two researchers, Arno…

…on how to describe the air, and it is a machine in permanent change. it uses a primitive form (a type?), a topography as a generic experiential codification, to describe…

…was not how to access hidden data, but rather “how to cope with a perfect avalanche of information.” The solution, according to Lowe, depended both on having people “with sufficient…

…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…

…authorities – to express their relation to animals in the language of viruses (Keck 2010). How do all these actors fit together into a “sentinel post”? How do they configure…