The Daily Populous

Saturday June 10th, 2017 day edition

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Netflix has more bad news for fans petitioning to bring back Sense8.

We know you want to #RenewSense8," said the streamer in a message posted to the show's official Facebook page.

The reason we've taken so long to get back to you is because we've thought long and hard here at Netflix to try to make it work but unfortunately we can't.".

The message was signed with the hashtag #SensatesForever: "Thank you for watching and hope you'll stay close with your cluster around the world.".

"It may not seem fair in the face of such passionate fan backlash, but it always, ALWAYS boils down to numbers.

Netflix canceled Sense8 shortly after canceling Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down — two of its most expensive series.

Our Netflix producers Peter, Cindy and Tara were fans of the show from day one. »

Sam Panopoulos, man who invented Hawaiian pizza and started 1,000 internet arguments, dies at 83

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Sam Panopoulos, the man who claimed to have invented the ultimate love-it-or-hate-it food Hawaiian pizza, has died aged 83, according to reports.

A statement from the family read: "Sam immigrated to Canada in 1952 and operated several successful restaurants alongside his brothers Elias & Nikitas in Elliot Lake, Wallaceburg, Chatham and London.

We went down to Windsor a couple of times, and these places, and I said, 'Let's try a pizza.'. »

New York veterans push for medical marijuana to treat PTSD

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But when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition many of his fellow veterans live with, his views on medical marijuana have shifted.

"I have some of my friends that deal with (PTSD)," said Becker, the legislative director of the state Council of Veterans Organizations.

Yet there are still New York lawmakers who are unconvinced of medical marijuana's efficacy for treating PTSD. »

Study: Trump and Clinton supporters accept new information when it conforms to their desires

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People are less likely to accept new information when it conflicts with the political outcomes they want, according to research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology:General.

The study provides some clues as to why the political climate in the United States appears to be increasingly polarized.

It remains an open question, for example, whether confirmation and desirability biases are similarly dissociable when we search for, and/or evaluate new information.”. »