The Daily Populous

Elon Musk, through the The Musk Foundation, has donated $5 million to American non-profit educational organization Khan Academy, which seeks to help students and teachers across the globe by providing access to free, world-class education.

The donation was shared by Khan Academy founder, Salman Khan, who thanked the CEO in a YouTube video.

In his message, Khan noted that The Musk Foundation‘s $5 million donation would go a long way towards accelerating the academy’s projects. »

A petition by an organization of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urging all nations to sign the U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons has garnered a whopping 13.7 million signatures.

The Appeal of the Hibakusha association made the announcement during an online news conference on Jan. 13 after submitting the petition to the United Nations on Jan. 8.

A total of 1,497 incumbent and former prefectural governors and mayors in Japan added their names to the petition. »

The National Debt Increased Under Trump Despite His Promise to Reduce It Daily total national debt from 2009 to present.

By the Trump administration’s own description, the pre-pandemic national debt level was already a “crisis” and a “grave threat.”.

Our national debt has reached immense levels relative to our economy, nearly as high as it was at the end of World War II. »

The findings provide evidence that conservatives and liberals tend to evaluate sources of knowledge differently, even in regard to non-political issues.

That’s one of the things that lead some social scientists to suggest that conservatives are more anti-science or anti-empiricism than liberals.”.

“Liberals think empirical evidence is better at approximating reality, conservatives are more likely to say that both research and anecdotes are legitimate. »