Postscript
Mass layoffs are a fact of life in journalism. Your favorite writers and editors have dealt with them. But they weren’t supposed to happen at The Post. Over the last week or so, I’ve been dealing wit
Random Digest: February 14, 2026
10 hand-picked articles from our collection
This digest was algorithmically curated to spark serendipity and encourage intellectual wandering. Each article was chosen at random from our recent collection, creating unexpected connections and delightful discoveries across diverse topics and perspectives.
Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 3:12 AM
The US doesn’t need to generate as much new electricity as you think
Load shifting and improving energy efficiency could reduce the need for new power plants, but utilities often profit more from building than saving power.
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laborato
Dream Engineering Could Help You Solve Problems While You Sleep
“Sleeping on it” comes of age The post Dream Engineering Could Help You Solve Problems While You Sleep appeared first on Nautilus.
Adviser links: a primary information channel
Mondays are all about financial adviser-related links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at...
The hard art of comfort
Sick in a London hospital, I understood the Book of Job and his rage at all the miserable comforters - by Lisa Simone Kingstone Read on Psyche
“Movement Parties” and Democratic Socialists of America
The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have form
What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
Point Dume
Sur les traces de Henry Miller et John Fante
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