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In protecting endangered species, the power of the people is key, an analysis of listings under the US Endangered Species Act finds. 
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Although use of the internet has been credited with helping spur democratic revolutions in the Arab world and elsewhere, a new multinational study suggests the internet is most likely to play a role only in specific situations.
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The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it.
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Ignorance can be bliss, but it seems it can also promote democracy.
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The real debate in the arts is, are there criteria for art that could be persuasive in a democratic society to induce a society to support it? Is there some objective way of saying 'Well, a Beethoven symphony, a Wagner opera, a Debussy nocturne - those are superior to something else - that certain buildings, certain painters, certain sculptures are understood as critically superior to things that are of the same type, but not as good? Is there a hierarchy of goodness? Is there some true value to our judgments about art? Is it reasonable to say 'That just isn’t art' or 'that's bad art?'"
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Bableverse creators quote a Google translation executive saying that machine translation cannot be improved upon until we reach the singularity, a point where the physical distinction between man and machine is erased. Until then, combining machine intelligence with human nuance will prove the next best thing.
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In workplaces with a high percentage of women in a management position more individualized employee feedback is carried out, more democratic decisions are adopted and more interpersonal channels of communications are established, according to a...
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Conspiracy theories are tempting. There is something especially charming about a forged moon landing or government-backed assassination. Christopher Hitchens called them “the exhaust fumes of democracy.” Maybe he’s right: cognitive biases, after all, feast on easy access to information and free speech.
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Since 2005, Todorov has conducted a number of studies, spanning numerous elections all over the world, and has come to a disconcerting conclusion: in many instances, we can be influenced in our vote by nothing more than the brief flash of a candidate’s face.
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Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 2003, and in such an environment the specter of violence or other unrest is never far away.
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