At long last, doomsday has arrived. Ebola’s Atlantic passage may have mixed genres of tragedy and farce—real human suffering and cable news—but finally a sense of urgency matches years of…

…freedom of the press. There was some pious testimony from an LA Times editor about the threat to a so-called great paper’s integrity. But when the cries of terrorism are…

…incentive to invest money in making sure their systems are vulnerability-free, because security isn’t a key value proposition in their business model, it’s merely an overhead cost to be minimized….

…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…

…bait (c.f. White, 1995). However, in practice, the problems with the method are perhaps more mundane. Free prophylactic treatment, regular screenings for parasites, and access to health care counter the…

…evidence of intentional concealment and deception. This conspiratorial interpretation became more tenacious because it was repeated by those promoting it and by mainstream news organizations reporting on the “scandal.” Case…

…as self-regulating represents an early effort to find systems in nature. He depicted these ‘circular causal systems’ in a talk that was delivered at a New York Academy of Science…

…specific cholesterol-lowering medication. From the Science News Letter, February 18th, 1961. This is a typical situation in contemporary affluent societies, faced by thousands of middle-aged and elderly persons every day….

…For practitioners of routine cheese care to lay claim to the art of affinage—a question raised by a New York Times story in 2011 (Gordinier 2011)—is for many mongers an…

…et al. 2010). Elsewhere, attempts to test the effects of certain micronutrients or endocrine disruptors on developing or newborn mice have accidentally focused attention on the biological effects of standard…

…of the Genizah correspondence so pleasant. It was a civilized world, of people who knew how to behave, who were considerate, paying proper attention to their fellowmen. He knew his…

…of risk and identify the distributed effects of risk-based activity as the new objects of regulatory control, it is arguable that they are only promoting the historical transformation towards a…

…still-frozen blood samples to yield new knowledge about future risk. A second group of essays explores public debates around the use of sentinel devices in health policy contexts. Didier Torny…

…by French librarians and slated for destruction. Public library space is often limited, and new books replace the old ones. Prévieux’s work is the result of a lengthy task of…

…the poorly understood dynamics of species extinction. In this space of imperfect knowledge and inexorable threat, the origins of extinction usher in a new kind of intellectual labor, a “horizoning…

…it became the basis of a new focus on the resilience of human communities, including the infrastructure systems that enable them to function (Bruneau et al. 2003; Norris et al….

…automatically taken as a sample. “Everything on the site is found here. For example, if a truck arrives with chemical products and there’s a leak, or a tank that freezes…

…new pathogens before they emerge. In 2014, the Ebola-related deaths of thousands of West Africans (far outside the original central African “hot zone”) revealed that the “global” reach of this…

…vital: because every new random string is hashed with the previous one, it is easy to verify the output of a hash, and the output is extremely difficult to predict…