On 9 June 2013, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras made public the identity of Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor who several days previously had leaked documents on mass surveillance programmes classified as “top secret”. Snowden thus revealed the intromission of the US authorities into people’s private lives and the complicity of the major I...

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Produced based on the Wikileaks leaks, this application provides a unique record of attacks since 2004. It covers only the IED explosions, roadside bombs triggered by command wire, radio signal, mobile phone or by the victim, usually by walking or driving over the devices. 16,000 improvised explosive devices are recorded in the Afghanistan war logs, risin...

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Physician John Snow is the protagonist of one of the most famous episodes of science in the 19th century, which has been narrated on numerous occasions. A devastating outbreak of cholera in London’s Soho in 1854 offered him the chance to collect data in the field to understand how the disease was transmit- ted. Snow demonstrated, against the prevailing op...

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