Caracal Daily | Feb. 9

WATCHING TODAY:

1. Europe needs 65 million electric vehicle chargers by 2035: Bloomberg reports a report from EY and Eurelectric calls for $134 billion in infrastructure investment.

2. Forget T-shirts and tote bags. NFTs are the hot new campaign swag. Politico reports consultants are launching NFT platforms to help clients cash in on the boom and engage with voters after the technology exploded in popularity last year.

3. Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain says this Yale professor: The Guardian reports the most satisfying lives are those which involve challenge, fear, and struggle, says psychologist Paul Bloom.

4. OK, WTF are wordcels and shape rotators? Matthew Gault writes knowing what shape rotators and wordcels are will make you significantly dumber.

5. How Olympians embraced mental health after Biles showed the way: NYT reports Simone Biles’s public struggles gave other Olympians tacit permission to share their vulnerabilities. Some of them have.