Issue 6 The Total Archive »The Genomic Open…writing code, stopping only to ice his wrists (Townsend 2015). Yet, questions arose on the ground about the value and meaning of an endeavor that required an ever-growing number of…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Crowd funding and its Challenges…help increase the ecosystem’s impact where loans are managed and dispersed. Managing this number of individuals becomes increasingly difficult when you consider that each distinct type of crowd has unique…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…displaced, and thus plays a far more significant role in humanitarian portfolio. In 2013 (a low year), MSF treated 27,900 patients with cholera, many times the total number who had…
ResearchersTom Scott-Smith…embarking on a new project concerning disaster shelter, with particular attention on encampment and refugee housing. His work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Third World…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »The Political Meaning of Hacktivism…Factual truth is essential to politics for a number of reasons, not least of which is that “facts inform opinions,” which means that “freedom of opinion is a farce unless…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scaling Up/Scaling Down…each group should not exceed a certain number of families (40 is common), some groups have become even larger. Indeed, the demand substantially exceeds the supply; because farmers are lacking,…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…and woe to those who wield it ineffectively. Other cypherpunks proffered different views, however, raising a number of caveats in their discussion of the Bush emails that tease out nuances…