The Daily Populous

Monday May 22nd, 2017 day edition

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Saudis And The UAE Will Donate $100 Million To A Fund Inspired By Ivanka Trump.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will donate a combined $100 million to a World Bank fund for women entrepreneurs that was the brainchild of Ivanka Trump.

I've never seen anything come together so quickly, and I really have to say that Ivanka's leadership has been tremendous."

The money will help kick off a $1 billion women's empowerment fund that the World Bank will announce in July, he said.

During an October debate, Trump also told Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, "Saudi Arabia giving $25 million, Qatar, all of these countries.

While Ivanka Trump proposed the idea along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she is not involved with its operation.

Earlier in the day, Ivanka Trump met with a group of elite Saudi women at Tuwaiq Palace in Riyadh, where she largely avoided sharp criticism of the country's treatment of women. »

Cannes: Boo Netflix, But Studios and Theaters Are Killing Movies

Authored by inverse.com

Cannes announced this week that starting next year, it would no longer consider Netflix movies for exhibition.

Netflix has two movies at Cannes this year, and audience members booed at the premiere of Okja, the new film from South Korean master Bong Joon-ho.

It wasn’t the film’s quality — it got glowing reviews — but merely the fact that it’ll be available on Netflix right away. »

Canadians 'reluctant' to accept new police powers, prefer privacy online, government finds

Authored by cbc.ca

Last fall, the government asked Canadians to weigh in on the future of the country's national security legislation.

It was, in part, a response to outcry over elements of the controversial anti-terrorism Bill C-51, parts of which the Liberal government has promised to repeal.

But it seems that Canadians — at least, those that participated in the government's consultation — generally disagree. »

We can teach children to smell bullshit

Authored by vox.com
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So Oxman, now the research director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, started to wonder whether the best hope for bullshit prevention lay with children.

The little experiment convinced Oxman he had to start schooling people in the ways of bullshit detection early in life.

In 2016, Oxman tested the materials in a big trial involving 10,000 children from 120 primary schools in Uganda’s central region. »