The Daily Populous

Saturday June 1st, 2019 night edition

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The life of a movie star becomes increasingly unglamorous when you start looking more closely at what is required by each role.

Jonah Hill found himself in the latter category for The Wolf of Wall Street, a role that involved so much fake drug taking he says he was hospitalised with bronchitis.

“If you ingest that much matter into your lungs you’ll get very sick, and we were literally doing fake coke for, like, seven months, every day," he told his Any Given Wednesday host Bill Simmons.

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Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich" (Pictured: Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street) Michael Loccisano.

In this case, the fake substance was vitamin D powder, which Hill claims did have some beneficial effects.

“I never had more vitamin D in my entire life - I think I could have lifted a car over my head. »

The decline of trust in science “terrifies” former MIT president Susan Hockfield

Authored by vox.com

But that’s basically what the politicization of science has done to the public discussion about climate change, says former MIT president Susan Hockfield.

Today in the red chair is doctor Susan Hockfield, the former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.

So MIT has a different founding history from Yale: MIT was founded in 1861 to deliver technologies for America’s industrialization. »

Russia Deployed Its Trolls to Cover Up the Murder of 298 People on MH17

Authored by thedailybeast.com

But that unity, thanks largely to the fallout from the conspiracy theories advanced by Russian trolls, soon became frayed.

Altogether, 111,486 tweets about MH17 were posted by the IRA in just three days, from July 17 through 19.

According to the two journalists: “Never before or after did the trolls tweet so much in such a short period of time.”. »

Italy is evicting Steve Bannon from the medieval monastery he planned to turn into a far-right training academy

Authored by qz.com
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The Italian government has delivered a potentially fatal blow to Steve Bannon’s plans to transform a medieval monastery near Rome into a training academy for the far-right.

The Italian state allowed the conservative Catholic organization Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) to use the building early last year.

But earlier this month, Italian newspaper Repubblica reported that a letter used to guarantee the lease was forged. »