…Health, the Ebola virus had been isolated in European laboratories and the WHO knew there was an Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Sun et al. 2014). Some might complain that those…

…May 14: WHO reports that “the outbreak seems to be slowing down” June 20: MSF reports that Ebola outbreak is “totally out of our control”—epidemic is in a second wave;…

…Frustrated, Noah coded a script that automatically scanned for cancellations in the city hall’s appointment schedule. “So, Paula, in this moment I realized that we are sort of a new…

…preserved foods and the technical means to carry them, their promoters more or less surreptitiously introduced important changes linked to the features of this new container.[1] A change over time…

…a profuseness of data that you don’t have in other areas.” Out of this data casinos draw the contours of customer groups that we might think of as “touch-point collectives.”…

…models, pamphlets, and posters of Excrementa Estates. Also included were images taken from recent promotional material from a new class of upscale planned communities in Ghana. In these neoliberal “New…

…that may be greater than their ability to help mitigate that risk. In times of uncertainty, fear may trump established policies about how to manage the flow of people, information,…

…technology. Although IDRC’s call was premised on the notion that connectivity should improve access to health care, it aimed to find out what “works” and what does not in various…

…in the other social sciences (political science, sociology, economics). Data analysis à la française… At that time in France a new, multidimensional, analytical tool was put in place by a…

…that Yunus created to promote it. Microfinance customers have re-imagined what the financial services can do and why they need them. Customers divert microfinance loans from businesses and instead use…

…that those contractors operate and invest in independent businesses that provide them with opportunities for profit, judgment, foresight, and risk taking. Employers in the US, however, have long attempted with…

…and voluntary web-based participation was not enough, and Santos’ campaign knew it. On May 30th after the first round presidential election, the polling results showed that the enthusiasm for Mockus…

…is then “hashed,” or run through a function that takes data of any length and produces data of fixed length so that any change to the original data changes the…

…pirate archivists think that despite being copyrighted and locked behind paywalls, scholarly texts belong to humanity as a whole, and seek to ensure that every single one of us has…

…explain what that really means. People don’t experience the climate system, people experience weather events. So it was perhaps inevitable that a day or two after “Super­storm” Sandy hit New…

…label? It is not a quiz, merely a rhetorical hook. What Walmart really wants to talk about is how much it now knows about what’s behind the label, and how…

…calculation through which planners can anticipate the likelihood of future events, vigilance assumes that the future cannot be known and that one must therefore plan for the unexpected. Rather than…

…terms of their stability properties; and secondly, that there is a problem of the systemic risks that continue to pervade just the financial system. Systemic risk is associated with the…