Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 5, 2009
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Will you choose beauty? The carnivorous Wavy Bubble Snail, perhaps, with its billowing skirts shimmering under UV light. Or will it be age? Like the venerable 500-year-old Methuselah oyster.
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- Neighbors' lawn signs, public opinion polls and even a conversation in the next restaurant booth can affect how people vote in an election, suggests a new University of California, Davis, study. But it all depends ...
Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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EU legislators on Tuesday voted to slash use of pesticides by half across the bloc, despite opposition from some conservative groups.
Agriculture
Oct 24, 2023
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During Frito-Lay's first "Crash the Super Bowl" contest in 2006, thousands of participants submitted 30-second videos promoting Doritos. Entries were winnowed down to five finalists, and a public vote selected the winning ...
Economics & Business
Sep 5, 2023
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In the end it was neither beauty, nor gymnastic mating rituals that won the public over.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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Most people think democracy is something that adults do and regard the prospect of children voting as too silly to even contemplate. In the early 20th century, many democracies began (ostensibly) operating with universal ...
Social Sciences
Dec 28, 2022
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Attempts to stop voters getting to polling stations, increase waiting times to place a ballot or add restrictions on who can vote are becoming issues in democracies around the world.
Political science
Nov 21, 2022
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When an institutional investor uses recommendations from a proxy adviser to cast a vote on shareholder issues, they may want to proceed with caution.
Economics & Business
Oct 19, 2022
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope imaged these two overlapping spiral galaxies named SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, which lie more than a billion light-years from Earth. Despite appearing to collide in this image, the alignment ...
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2022
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