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Random Digest: April 11, 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, April 11, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Your opinion, please
From poetry to politics, this radio show asked listeners to speak their minds. Decades later, their words still resonate - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How the Stock Market Performs After a Correction
How does the stock market perform after it's down 10%, 20% or 30%? The post How the Stock Market Performs After a Correction appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Perhaps There Are Options Other Than "Toxic Confidence" and Insecurity-as-Identity
everything that is not forbidden is compulsory
Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: My new sigfile is unstoppable; TBL on the future of the web (2006); Wonder
Now We Know What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like
Thanks to crickets and relatives playing their “washboards” The post Now We Know What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like appeared first on Nautilus.
Oceans are absorbing the Earth’s excess energy. That’s bad news for food systems.
As the planet traps more energy than it releases, the pathways for global food production are being upended.
In Nebraska, wildfires are turning cattle ranching into a tricky business
Nearly a million acres in the state have burned this year. One expert calls it ‘a new kind of wildfire era.’
Contemporary Governance & Contemporary Prosperity & Past Settler Colonialism & Its Ilk: What Can We Infer, Really?
Colonial origins, causal claims, the baggage left behind in the overhead bin via the absence of a structural model, settler-colonist mortality, modern pro-prosperity “institutions”, and structural...
Are criminals born or made?
Sophie McBain in The Guardian: In 2021, the psychologist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden co-authored a paper outlining her research into the genetic patterns linked to a higher risk of developing subs