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 to solve. / Grist
Related: Conservative news commentators condemn Taylor 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 show 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 with the rest of the universe. / Popular Mechanics [+]