The Daily Populous

Sunday July 15th, 2018 morning edition

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U.S. President Donald Trump boasted before the world and British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday that he’d predicted the Brexit decision at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland the day before the historic vote.

It was one of several of Trump’s “towering, easily debunked lies” during his appearance in the U.K., The Guardian said.

“As you remember, I was opening Turnberry the day before Brexit,” Trump recounted, as you can hear in the video above.

I was cutting a ribbon for the opening of Turnberry — you know they totally did a whole renovation, it is beautiful — the day before the Brexit vote,” Trump recalled.

The media reported — and Trump’s own tweets confirmed — that he arrived in Scotland on Friday morning, June 24, 2016.

@realDonaldTrump says he came to Turnberry the day before Brexit and he told everyone that he thought Brexit would happen.

Just saying, @StephGrisham45, your own tweet from June 24, 2016 says that Trump arrived then (the day after Brexit): https://t.co/rguWtdis8c pic.twitter.com/bRtI3GgpNb — Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) July 13, 2018. »

Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories

Authored by news.berkeley.edu

Previous brain studies indicate that sleep patterns are disrupted in people with mood disorders such as PTSD and depression.

While humans spend one-third of their lives sleeping, there is no scientific consensus on the function of sleep.

However, Walker and his research team have unlocked many of these mysteries linking sleep to learning, memory and mood regulation. »

Disney would dominate the US box office if it buys Fox

Authored by money.cnn.com

Thanks to "Black Panther," "Avengers: Infinity War," "Incredibles 2" and "Deadpool 2," Disney (DIS) and Fox (FOXA) together control nearly half of the domestic market share so far in 2018, according to Box Office Mojo.

The two studios controlled about 35% of the domestic box office last year, according to Box Office Mojo.

Disney would inherit Fox Searchlight, a production and distribution arm of Fox that has been cleaning up at the Academy Awards. »

Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in more than 45 years — and the reasons are depressing

Authored by businessinsider.com

But those week-long stays during the Apollo program didn't establish a lasting human presence on the moon.

A lunar base could even become a thriving off-world economy, perhaps one built around lunar space tourism.

But many astronauts and other experts suggest the biggest impediments to crewed moon missions over the last four-plus decades have been banal if not depressing. »