The Daily Populous

"A Promised Land" charts Obama's path to the White House up to 2011 and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

It's publisher Crown announced Tuesday that it had increased its initial print run from 3.4 million copies to 4.3 million.

The two presidential memoirs have now each sold between 3.5 and 4 million copies, totals that Obama's book should easily surpass. »

The researchers say their findings, published in PNAS, point to differences in thinking patterns that lead people to hold rigid opinions.

Dogmatic people are characterised by a belief that their worldview reflects an absolute truth and are often resistant to change their mind, for example when it comes to partisan issues.

To investigate this, the researchers asked over 700 people to perform a simple decision-making task. »

“On such matters, they would never protest; they are incapable of moving outside of their own little world of interests.”.

In the book, Pope Francis, 83, also took aim at COVID-19 deniers, and the politicians that encourage them.

In his book, the pope said leaders who push ahead with opening their economies and businesses, despite surging coronavirus cases, have “mortgaged their people.” »

It’s been a grim year in many ways, but we should still celebrate good news where we can find it.

Tesla, his electric car company, just broke through a share price of $500 for the first time this week.

Grimes received slightly over $90,000 from Factor, a Canadian arts subsidy program that’s partially funded by the federal government. »