Indholdsfortegnelse for February 03-10, 2023 i Newsweek International

2003 “The specialists inside Mission Control were well aware that the complex machines they put into space and then hope to bring home again are potential deathtraps,” Newsweek wrote of Space Shuttle Columbia’s explosion. “The rest of us forget, until a tragedy occurs, and the nation and the world are left mourning.” After the Space Shuttle program retired in 2011, NASA initiated the super heavy-lift Space Launch System: Artemis 1 launched last November as its first flight; Artemis 2, set for 2024, will be its first crewed mission and take humans around the moon. 1975 “Almost overnight, the Mideast oil producers have become a potent economic force,” Newsweek wrote. “The oil sheiks…may bring chaos.” Tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia escalated in October when OPEC Plus voted to reduce…

Q _ Why this book? Why now? A _ Almost every lithium-ion rechargeable battery in the world has cobalt in it, and almost three-fourths of that cobalt is mined in appalling conditions in the Congo. Never in human history has there been so much suffering that generated so much profit that directly touched the lives of more people around the world. Most people are unaware of this tragedy, and that is why I wrote Cobalt Red. The reader will hear directly from the Congolese people themselves how they live, work and die to enable our rechargeable lives. You describe the deplorable conditions artisanal miners in the Congo are subjected to so that the industrialized world can have smartphones, electric vehicles (EVs) and more. What can be done to improve the…

Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg out of a group of protesters and activists and away from the edge of an open pit coal mine, the Garzweiler II, in North Rhine-Westphalia on January 17. The protest has lasted for more than two years in nearby Luetzerath, a tiny village slated to be emptied and demolished for the expansion of the mine, owned by European energy giant RWE. Thousands joined the demonstration for the village. This is the second time police have detained Thunberg, who has since been released, at the site.…

NOW NEARING ITS ONE YEAR anniversary, there appears to be little hope Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, itself the latest phase of an 8-year conflict, will end any time soon. Peace negotiations began within days of the February 24 invasion but were undermined from the start by wildly different demands, espionage and battlefield developments. By April, talks had collapsed, with Kyiv increasingly outraged by emerging evidence of Russian atrocities in parts of occupied Ukraine. Both Kyiv and Moscow acknowledge that a negotiated settlement will likely be needed to end the conflict. But the two sides appear to be living in different, contradictory, realities. Ukraine is demanding the full withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukrainian territory per its 1991 borders, reparations, war crimes prosecutions for Russian leaders and NATO membership. Russia…

TRUST IS A BIG PART OF EVERY BUYING DECISION. IT’S THE confidence to know that you can believe a product or service’s sales pitch, that it will do whatever it is supposed to do and that you won’t later regret having spent the money. Trust is a hard to measure, but nonetheless critical quality; difficult for a brand to earn and painfully easy to lose. To help our readers shop with greater confidence, Newsweek has partnered with leading market research firm BrandSpark® International to highlight the 2023 winners of Most Trusted Brands in America for Consumer Products and Services awards. The winners were selected based on a survey of U.S. shoppers who shared their thoughts on which brands they trust the most and why. Brands were considered in five broad…

“CHINA HAS BECOME OLDER BEFORE IT HAS BECOME RICH.”—Demographer Yi Fuxian on China’s declining population “Finally making my dream a reality, this one is for my son.”—ACTOR FRANKIE MUNIZ ON A NEW CAREER IN RACING “Nature always loses. When it comes to economic matters, that’s the rule.”—ECOLOGIST RENATO VALENCIA ON OIL DRILLING IN THE AMAZON “It is not reasonable for the state to regulate people’s dance.”—SWEDISH JUSTICE MINISTER GUNNAR STRÖMMER ON DANCE PERMITS FOR RESTAURANTS “I JUST CAME TO LOVE THE THRILL OF BEING SCARED.”—M3GAN screenwriter Akela Cooper on horror “Thousands of Ukrainian women are living this experience every day.”—CNN’s Clarissa Ward on reporting in Ukraine while pregnant “MACHISMO IS HEALTHY AND ALIVE EVERYWHERE, AND I WAS HAVING FUN UPENDING IT.”—Iranian American artist Tala Madani…

WITH REPUBLICANS NOW IN control of the House, many within their ranks have vowed to use their power to take on ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, seeing it as a form of activist-driven “woke capitalism” that has no place in an analysis of a company’s valuation or in making investment decisions. However, ESG is far from “woke.” In fact, ESG is best seen as a natural outgrowth of conservatism that has been rejected by Republicans out of pure partisanship, not ideological principle. ESG gets its woke label because this sort of analytical framework also looks at non-explicitly financial data when deciding whether a company is worth investment. Qualities such as environmental and social impact are examined to determine the effect the company has on the world. Internally, this framework…

Urban exploration of abandoned man-made structures became popular in the 1990s when modern society was fast forwarding into the next century. Left behind were remnants of human civilization. Far away from modernization, rusted in air, tangled in weeds and vines, ruins tell forgotten tales and sometimes become history in and of themselves. From a Volkswagen cemetery in Utah to Soviet architecture in Armenia to a women’s correctional facility in Thailand, here are deserted sites that take you back to a forgotten era. Flash in the Pan KOLMANSKOP, NAMIBIA Diamond mining brought this small town to its heyday during the early 20th century, attracting an influx of German funds and providing a fine butcher, bakery and even what was then-South Africa’s first X-ray machine. But when diamond resources dried up in…

WHEN YOU’RE AN ACTOR IN AN M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MOVIE, IT’S EASY to start obsessing over the eventual twists that are surely to come. But as Jonathan Groff experienced in Shyamalan’s new film Knock at the Cabin (February 3), it’s easy to get “lost” in the story. “We’re really submitting to his vision and trying to help him achieve exactly what he wants.” Groff plays Andrew, a father held hostage along with his partner and young daughter by criminals who force them to make an impossible decision to avert the end of the apocalypse. Groff says he understood Andrew “in a primal way” and that this was “the first time I’ve ever done a horror movie. So it was a real education.” For an actor so known for his voice,…