Mythology mindset, the politics of art and and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

• The Titanium Economy. Meet the US industrial-technology companies that are driving innovation, and sustainable and inclusive growth – McKinsey
• Steven Pinker and the ‘mythology mindset’. The Harvard professor of psychology says he doesn’t sign on to the pessimistic conclusion that humans are inherently irrational  – Financial Times
• What does art do? Good art, laced with irony, ambiguity and suspense, is not obviously political. That’s what makes it politically interesting – Aeon
• No longer tied to offices, workers are still bound by the clock. While the pandemic shifted where work gets done, we’re still following Henry Ford’s advice about when we work  – Bloomberg
• Three-quarters of the UK population misunderstand recycling symbols. How design can be the solution to this staggering statistic – Creative Review
• A step forward for circular manufacturing. Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones – The Economist
• Envy, the happiness killer. Eradicating this ugly emotion entirely would be impossible, but we can stop fueling it with our behaviour – The Atlantic
• The power of partnership. Uday Bose discusses the life-changing power of BI’s Making More Health initiative – The Beautiful Truth