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If you’ve ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes that this ancient practice is quite the opposite: Meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity that profoundly alters brain dynamics.Researchers from the University of Montreal and Italy’s National Research Council recruited 12 monks of the Thai Forest Tradition at Santacittārāma, a Buddhist monastery outside Rome. In a laboratory in Chieti-Pescara, scientists analyzed the brain activity of these meditation practitioners using magnetoencephalography (MEG),…

Feb 11, 2026, 02:29 PM ETCasey Wasserman’s job as chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee is safe after the LA28 board’s executive committee met Wednesday to discuss his appearance in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein.Wasserman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, but documents released by the Justice Department revealed that in 2003 he exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell, who years later would be accused of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse his victims.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedLA28 said that, with help from an outside legal firm, it conducted a review of…

Less than a week after Valve admitted that the current shortage (and growing prices) of RAM were affecting its hardware plans, the Steam Deck is completely sold out. The Steam Deck has gone in and out of stock in the past, but as Kotaku notes, the timing does raise the question whether Valve’s RAM issues could also be impacting its Linux handheld.The 256GB Steam Deck LCD, and both the 512GB and 1TB models of the Steam Deck OLED, are completely sold out on Steam. Valve announced that it was discontinuing the LCD versions of its handheld and selling through its…

US President Donald Trump speaks at a “Champion of Coal” event at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 11, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to purchase power from coal plants, his latest effort to revivte an industry that has struggled to compete against cheaper energy resources.Trump signed the executive order at a White House event attended by Peabody Energy CEO James Grech. The order directs the Pentagon to secure long-term power purchase agreements with coal plants for military installations.”We’re going to be buying a lot of coal…

We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.My home tends to accumulate a lot of clutter. I can contain bigger items on shelves, but the smaller stuff can become a bit of a puzzle. I’m the type of person who needs to see my possessions on a regular basis or I may very well forget they exist. So, you can understand why I’m not a huge fan of jewelry boxes. I have a rotating rack for my earrings and a stand for…

Rachel Scott was named the creative director of Proenza Schouler days before the brand’s New York fashion week presentation last September. Today’s show was her real opening salvo, though, the first collection she worked on start-to-finish having replaced brand founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who decamped for Paris and the opportunity to helm Loewe. An impressive cohort of fellow designers including Maria Cornejo, Calvin Klein’s Veronica Leoni, and Raul Lopez of Luar turned up to support Scott, who has a show for her own label Diotima in just four days.Juggling two brands, Scott may be New York fashion week’s…

Aurora, the driverless truck firm founded by former members of Google’s pioneering self-driving car team, is branching out. In advance of its quarterly earnings report today, the company announced that a new software update would enable it to triple its driverless network to a total of 10 routes across the Southern US.Currently, Aurora has 10 autonomous trucks without safety monitors driving routes between Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, and El Paso. The company has issued three previous software updates: the first to authorize driverless trips between Dallas and Houston; the second to authorize driving at night; and the third to expand…

MILAN — After 15 years of partnership and two years of marriage, after so many early mornings and late nights of work, after four Olympics together, Madison Chock and Evan Bates at long last have their own ice dancing medal.Chock and Bates won silver in Wednesday night’s ice dancing event, bringing home a final combined score of 224.39. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron claimed gold with a score of 225.82, while Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirer took bronze with a score of 217.74.AdvertisementWhile Chock and Bates have been a known Olympic quantity for well over a decade,…

In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C. I went back and forth between the two OLED screens for easily 20 minutes, happily paralyzed by the choice in front of me. The Video Only salesperson attempted to explain that there was no wrong decision.A year and a half later, I disagree: I regret picking the Samsung over the LG. I regret it every time I adjust the volume on my TV, every time I plug in a new device, and…

“Dressing” is a limiting moniker for ranch. It’s built for salads, sure, but ranch dressing is also, crucially, a dip, ideal for dunking chicken wings and tofu nuggets. You can drizzle ranch on pizza, spread it on a sandwich, and generally deploy a dollop anywhere creamy, tangy goodness is welcome. That’s what we in the biz call a multihyphenate.We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that you can make your own ranch dressing—we’ve got a classic buttermilk ranch recipe, as well as versions made with tahini and lavender. But sometimes, homemade just isn’t in the cards. That’s when bottled ranch…