Table of contents for November 21, 2022 in TIME Magazine

This year, our annual list of best Inventions includes more innovations in sustainability than ever before. Among them is SCC55, a material that significantly enhances silicon-lithium battery performance. It’s made by Group14, whose CEO, Rick Luebbe (below), spoke about boosting green ingenuity with Barun Singh, CTO of TIME CO2, a new platform to help businesses get to net zero. Read more on time.com Singh: Group14 is slated to make batteries for Porsche EVs, and you just got a $100 million grant from the Department of Energy, but many products don’t get that far. What do we need to do to support the green-innovation ecosystem? Luebbe: The struggle is getting from idea to commercialization. There are two chasms. One: you need to have data to get first seed investments, and you…

Are you a lark—someone who greets the day before 7 a.m.—or a night owl who thrives after dark? Some 30% to 40% of the answer depends on your genes, says Philip Gehrman, director of the Sleep, Neurobiology, and Psychopathology lab at the University of Pennsylvania. But your internal clock is mostly determined by other factors, like your age, sex, environment—and distance from the snooze button. Few people are extreme larks or night owls, and most of us fall somewhere in between, says Jennifer Martin, president of the board of directors for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. So if you want (or need) to start waking up at the crack of dawn, that’s an achievable goal. There are lots of good health reasons to rise earlier. Research has linked…

Pakistan’s politics were plenty toxic even before the failed assassination against ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan. When Khan was removed from power following a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April, he claimed Pakistan’s military and its friends in Washington wanted to silence him. He then kicked off a series of protest marches that have drawn massive crowds. In October, Khan insinuated that the army had killed a journalist, an uncharacteristically blunt frontal assault on Pakistan’s army, and the country’s head of military intelligence felt compelled to call an unprecedented public press conference to deny the charge. Officials in the current government, led by Shehbaz Sharif, accused Khan of terrorism, illegally receiving money from foreigners, and other forms of financial fraud. Then, during a protest rally earlier this…

AR & VR AUGMENTED JOB TRAINING Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap sees a big future for augmented reality (AR) in workplaces. With this new headset, which can overlay 3D images and text on a user’s surroundings, the company is focused on employers in health care, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors. Home-improvement giant Lowe’s has begun outfitting workers with Magic Leap 2 so they can see what a store shelf should look like and then tweak displays. Manufacturers are using it to speed up training of technicians on factory floors. Fifty percent smaller than its predecessor, the headset offers a wider field of view and crisper image resolution. New “dynamic dimming” technology blocks distracting light to create an immersive work environment. Magic Leap’s open developer platform lets its customers create…

Years ago, I was in Amsterdam with one of my friends, Jen, when I tripped and fell for absolutely no reason. I lay on the ground for a moment in shock. I wasn’t hurt or anything, I was just surprised. My shoes were tied, the pavement was smooth, and I hadn’t been wildly weaving or jumping around. And yes, I was a little high (Amsterdam), but not in a way that would have led to forgetting how to walk. I looked up from the ground and said, “Jen! Gah! What if, someday, I become one of those people who just falls for no reason?” We found this idea so outrageous that we laughed and laughed. Because to me, lying there, barely into my early 30s, falling for no reason…

Elon Musk wants Twitter to bring “power to the people.” One of his first strategies to do this? Charge the people—$7.99 a month for a coveted blue check mark. Musk, who completed his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in late October, has been critical of Twitter’s verification system, in which high-profile users—journalists, government officials, brands, and other public figures—can apply for “verified” status that confirms their identity, and gives them prestige and prominence on the platform by placing a blue check mark next to their username. This designation, he argued in a tweet, creates a “lords & peasants system.” ‘They should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.’ —Author Stephen King, on Musk's Twitter subscription plan Musk also needs Twitter to make money, fast. The company…

DIED Takeoff Hip-hop trendsetter Takeoff wasn’t the biggest celebrity to come out of Migos, the Atlanta rap trio known for its swift ascent to the top of the charts in the early 2010s—but he was perhaps the group’s best rapper. His effortlessly agile delivery had a long-reaching influence on trap music, a regional subgenre that would come to define modern American pop. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, was shot to death in Houston on Nov. 1 after a dispute at a bowling alley. He was 28. Migos bypassed traditional industry gatekeepers by earning a rabid following online for songs like “Bad and Boujee” and “Versace.” Before long, the triplet-based “Migos Flow” would become ubiquitous, with artists like Post Malone and Ariana Grande adopting the style. With…

The result of Brazil’s Oct. 30 election was the best news the global climate fight has had in a while: Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent who has overseen an unrelenting surge in deforestation in the Amazon rain forest, narrowly lost out on a second term. Bolsonaro took 49.1% of the vote against 50.9% for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former President who has pledged to protect the crucial carbon sink—and has a track record to back up his promises. SHRINKING FOREST The fertile lands of the Amazon have always been a target for Brazil’s farmers, loggers, and miners. In a bid to appeal to those groups, Bolsonaro gutted the budgets of agencies tasked with preventing deforestation. More than 12,800 sq. mi. of the Brazilian Amazon were lost…

When I first call Sherry Pocknett, she’s on her way out the door—headed to forage for mushrooms. But the Mashpee Wampanoag chef and longtime caterer invites me up to her restaurant, Sly Fox Den Too, in Charlestown, R.I., which specializes in East Coast Indigenous cuisine. There, in a little red house right by Narragansett Indian tribal lands, she cooks lunch—crisping duck skin like a potato chip—and explains that the sunflower oil she’s using to prepare our meal can also be rubbed on your hair and skin to keep you looking youthful. Pocknett, 62, is a member of the tribe best known for feeding the Pilgrims. Her restaurant—named for her fisherman father and Native American rights advocate Chief Sly Fox—is her own way of using her people’s knowledge to feed…

In March 2018—three months before the hit Paramount Network drama Yellowstone debuted—an Alberta, Canada, woman who goes by the internet handle Tori F. began creating social media accounts under the heading “Yellowstone TV Fans.” Tori F. had been building fan spaces online since the mid-2000s; and as an admirer of the actor Kelly Reilly (who plays Yellowstone’s ruthless, damaged businesswoman Beth Dutton), she saw a lot of potential in this show. It looked to be both a western and a family melodrama, two genres underrepresented on TV. More important, it looked pulpy and fun. She says, “I was on the lookout for something new, for a Sunday-night watch party with friends.” Right away, though, Tori F. noticed something different about the Yellowstone fans she was interacting with online. They were…

Your character on The White Lotus, Bert, is a flatulent, crass womanizer. How did you relate to him? They’re in my family. I’m 83 and come from an era where that was very common. They’re funny people: they’re so insensitive, but at the same time, loving and kind and generous. But they do have a blind spot when it comes to women, no question about that. I was raised that way. What a great relief, to become a feminist. As a man, I don’t have to carry the world on my shoulders. You called acting an “awful, awful profession” in a 1986 interview. Would you agree now? When it’s bad, it’s awful. Eighty-five percent of actors in the union are out of work, always. [One study says 90%.] There were…