Why do Americans eat so much beef?

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

Fuller debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?

Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...

"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...

Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...

Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...

The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...

"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...