The credit trap

South Africa says it's sending 3,000 troops to fight groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. / Reuters

In 2022, the DRC produced almost three-quarters of the world's cobalt—"essential in the green-energy transition." / Semafor

Taylor Swift's private flight to the Super Bowl suggests what's wrong with carbon removal: leaving it to the private sector. / Grist

Related: Conservative news anchors condemn Swift for drinking beer. / Media Matters

Unrelated: Nuclear weapons laboratories don't often help solve serial-killer cases, but sometimes they do. / Undark Magazine

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologizes to his family for a Super Bowl ad based on a storied JFK commercial. / The Wrap

All four of Donald Trump's criminal cases reach "clarifying inflection points" this week. / Politico

A new dating app debuts for Americans who can prove they have good to excellent credit. / The Financial Times

Fewer cousins? A study projects a 38% global decline in living relatives for individuals aged 65 by the year 2095. / Radio-Canada

Critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist asks any artist he meets to write something on a Post-it note. / Artsy

See also: "Everything is a screensaver." / The Trend Report

From October, an experiment suggests your sense of consciousness may be a quantum wave that connects to the rest of the universe. / Popular Mechanics [+]


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