Innehållsförteckning för February 03-10, 2023 från Newsweek

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…

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…

FEATURED EPISODE Parting Shot Your weekly dose of everything pop culture FRIEND OR FOE? ▸ How the dark humor, viral dance and memes and surreal qualities of the doll M3GAN and the movie of the same name came to be. Tech toys like creepy M3GAN are what beg actress and co-producer Allison Williams’ ethical question, “If you’re giving something any kind of artificial intelligence, what are your responsibilities to it? What do you owe it?” Plus: Why M3GAN is so relatable to millenials. HOST ▸ H. Alan Scott, culture writer, comedian IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “Any of these battery-operated toys will outlive all of us as long as there are batteries, and that is just such an unsettling concept.” DON’T MISS FAST WOMEN Test driving the newest cars on wild…

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…

“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…

RUST 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…

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,…