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Postcards
Postcards are a dream-pop and shoegaze trio from Beirut, Lebanon, formed in 2012, described as Lebanon's longest-running alternative band, blending dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, and noise.
Postcards from Texas
Postcards from Texas is Miranda Lambert's ninth (also counted as tenth) studio album, released September 13, 2024 on Vanner/Republic Records, her first after leaving Sony, co-produced with Jon Randall and recorded in Austin.
Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge: Carrie Fisher's 1987 semi-autobiographical debut novel about actress Suzanne Vale's rehab, and Mike Nichols' 1990 film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Postcards from the Edge (film)
Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols, adapted by Carrie Fisher from her novel, starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Postcholecystectomy syndrome
Postcholecystectomy syndrome (PCS), also called post-cholecystectomy biliary dyspepsia, is persistent or new abdominal and gastrointestinal symptoms after gallbladder removal, affecting roughly 10%-47% of patients, driven by altered bile flow, retained stones, sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, or functional gut-brain disorders.
Postcode Lottery Group
Postcode Lottery Group (Novamedia), Amsterdam-based foundation-owned charity lottery operator founded 1989; six lotteries in five European countries; over €15.5 billion raised; third-largest private charity donor.
Postcodes in Australia
Postcodes in Australia, also known as Australian postcodes, are four-digit numbers introduced by Australia Post on 1 July 1967, with first digits keyed to state radio call signs.
Postcodes in the United Kingdom
Postcodes in the United Kingdom are alphanumeric codes created and maintained by Royal Mail, first trialed in Norwich in 1959 and complete nationwide since 1974.
Postcolonial feminism
Postcolonial feminism analyzes how colonialism and global power shape gender oppression. Key figures: Chandra Talpade Mohanty ("Under Western Eyes"), Gayatri Spivak, María Lugones. Distinguished by critiques of Western feminism's "Third World Woman" and links to decolonial feminism.
Postcolonial Indian English fiction
Postcolonial Indian English fiction is fiction written in English by Indian writers after India's 1947 independence, engaging with colonial legacies, nation, and history, exemplified by Mulk Raj Anand, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy.
Postcolonial international relations
Postcolonial international relations: a critical IR approach analyzing colonial legacies in world politics and the discipline itself; also called postcolonial IR; uses Fanon, Said, Spivak, Quijano's coloniality of power; unlike realism, sees hierarchy, not anarchy.
Postcolonial literature
Postcolonial literature is writing from formerly colonized countries and diasporas engaging with colonialism's legacy. Key figures: Said (Orientalism, 1978), Achebe, Rushdie; concepts include hybridity and writing back.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Postcolonial Love Poem is a 2020 poetry collection by American poet Natalie Diaz, published by Graywolf Press; it won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism: academic field studying the legacies of colonialism after the colonial era; founded around Said's Orientalism (1978), developed by Bhabha and Spivak, shaped by subaltern studies, and critiqued by Marxist and decolonial thinkers.
PostCSS
PostCSS is a JavaScript framework for transforming CSS through plugins: it parses stylesheets into an abstract syntax tree that plugins modify, and it underlies tools like Autoprefixer, Stylelint, and cssnano.
Postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher (postdoc): a PhD holder in a temporary research position transitioning toward a long-term career. Covers titles, funding, precarity, career outcomes, and NIH 5-year support limit proposals.
Postdramatic theatre
Postdramatic theatre (Postdramatisches Theater): term coined by Hans-Thies Lehmann in 1999 for theatre defined outside the paradigm of the dramatic text, shifting from representation to presentation; English translation 2006.
Poste Italiane
Poste Italiane is Italy's universal postal operator and a majority state-owned group spanning mail, parcels, payments, banking, and insurance, with 12,755 post offices and 46 million customers.
Posted price
A posted price is the publicly declared dollar value an oil company stated it would accept for a barrel of crude, used mainly for calculating royalties and taxes.
Postencephalitic parkinsonism
Postencephalitic parkinsonism (PEP), a sequela of encephalitis lethargica (von Economo's disease), is a tauopathy causing parkinsonism with oculogyric crises after the 1916-1930 epidemic; distinct from Parkinson's disease by neurofibrillary tangles and absent alpha-synuclein.
Poster
A poster is a printed or displayed sheet combining image and text for public display, emerging as a mass medium with color lithography in the 1860s.
Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz
Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz is a 2026 Australian documentary by Selina Miles about bodybuilder and internet icon Aziz "Zyzz" Shavershian, revealing his toxicology-based cause of death and linking his aesthetics movement to modern looksmaxxing.
Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy
Posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy, also known as posterior amorphous stromal dystrophy, is a rare inherited eye condition with sheet-like opacities in the back corneal stroma, causing mild vision loss.
Posterior blepharitis
Posterior blepharitis (後部眼瞼炎), ICD-11 9A02.1, is inflammation of the back eyelid margin, typically meibomian gland dysfunction; treated with warm compresses, lid hygiene, and antibiotics, with no strong cure evidence.
Posterior capsulotomy
Posterior capsulotomy is an Nd:YAG laser procedure that cuts an opening in an opacified posterior lens capsule to restore vision lost to clouding after cataract surgery, with success above 95%.
Posterior cerebral artery
Posterior cerebral artery (PCA, arteria cerebri posterior): terminal basilar artery branch supplying occipital and temporal lobes, midbrain, thalamus; P1–P4 segments; fetal-type variant in 20–32%; PCA stroke causes homonymous hemianopia.
Posterior cerebral artery syndrome
Posterior cerebral artery syndrome: deficits from infarction in the PCA territory (occipital, temporal lobes, thalamus, midbrain), causing homonymous hemianopia, sensory and neuropsychological deficits, mostly from embolism.
Posterior column ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa syndrome
Posterior column ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa syndrome (PCARP, OMIM 609033) is an autosomal recessive FLVCR1-related disorder with childhood-onset sensory ataxia from spinal posterior column degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa leading to blindness; about 20 cases reported.
Posterior component separation
Posterior component separation (PCS) is an abdominal wall reconstruction technique that divides the posterior rectus sheath, allowing fascial closure of large ventral hernia defects wider than 10 cm.
Posterior consistency in Bayesian nonparametrics
Posterior consistency in Bayesian nonparametrics is the property that, as observations grow, the posterior concentrates on the true infinite-dimensional parameter rather than staying spread over the prior.