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🏥 Healthcare
February 08, 2026

Improve Energy & Longevity by Optimizing Mitochondria | Dr. Martin Picard

Dr. Martin Picard, PhD, is a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University and an expert on how our behaviors and psychology shape cellular energy production and rates of aging. He explains that your mitochondria don’t just “make energy”; they translate what you do—your mindset and your relationships—into the energy you experience as vitality or lack thereof. He explains how exercise, nutrition, sleep, meditation, and even certain thought patterns and our sense of purpose can charge...

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📈 Economy
February 18, 2026

How should policymakers adapt economic frameworks to address emerging challenges not covered by traditional economics?

This is the strangest economy I’ve seen in my lifetime. If you just looked at the macro data — the jobs numbers, G.D.P., the stock market — things look pretty normal. But they clearly aren’t normal. The Trump administration spent the year upending the global trade system while tech companies spent hundreds of billions of dollars on A.I., a technology that could potentially displace many of our jobs. And people don’t feel normal, either. Survey data shows that the vibecession rages on. Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal are the co-hosts of the excellent economics podcast “Odd Lots” and have closely followed all the chaos this year. So I wanted to have them on the show to explain what the hell is going on. Mentioned: Charts Odd Lots The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu “The Vibecession: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” by Kyla Scanlon “Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy” by Kyla Scanlon Book Recommendations: Breakneck by Dan Wang North Woods by Daniel Mason A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst The Digital Reversal by Andrey Mir Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was

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🌍 Geopolitics
February 04, 2026

Surveying Duality in Space

These proceedings share details on a workshop examining dual-use space systems (those capable of performing both civilian and military operations) that included space stakeholders from the Indo-Pacific from government, private, and research sectors

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📈 Economy
February 04, 2026

Effective tax rates for billionaires

Here is the tweet, here is the source data. The post Effective tax rates for billionaires appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsBetter or worse than tyler ? by Dada maravilhaGabriel Zuccman is the source. Probably the worst well-known . by Naveen_KRelated StoriesThe United States as an Active Industrial Policy NationDoes Peer-Reviewed Research Help Predict Stock Returns?David Hume update — “model this”

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🎭 Culture
February 08, 2026

The genre that came in from the cold

This article explores the resurgence of the spy genre in literature and film, examining its evolution and cultural significance in a world increasingly defined by geopolitical tensions.

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