Among students who were disappointed when the CAO made its college offers on Wednesday are those who lost out through random selection. Their disappointment is keen because they did, literally, make ...

Democracy can be better served by randomly selecting representatives, argue Italian researchers. Dr Alessandro Pluchino of the Universita di Cantania and colleagues report their findings on the ...

Democracies would be better off if they chose some of their politicians at random. That's the word, mathematically obtained, from a team of Italian physicists, economists, and political analysts. The ...