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Cops share photo of a driver that went a little too hard with their Christmas tree(图1)

Look, if you want to cut down a massive Christmas tree, and stick it up inside your two-story living room, go for it. But maybe don't endanger anyone's life in the process.

Police in Massachusetts put up a post on their Facebook page on Friday, reminding people to please transport their Christmas trees safely. They really shouldn't have to do this, but here we are.

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"One of our officer's stopped this vehicle on Route 20 today," the cops said on Facebook(opens in a new tab), posting a photo of what appears to be a Prius topped with a Christmas tree.

The tree is so large, it completely obstructs the view of the side and rear windows. It's not clearly visible, but we're also guessing that it wasn't tied down very well.

Cops share photo of a driver that went a little too hard with their Christmas tree(图2)

While the tree transport was outrageous to say the least, most people in the comments were upset that the police decided to call the tree a "holiday tree" instead of a Christmas tree.

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People are sharing how pop culture has hilariously ruined their names
"'Andy' like Toy Story!" they always say.
Always my response: "Hahaha... yep..."
And then the followup: "You gootttt a frriiieeennnd in me!"
"Yep. That's the song..."
The Twitterverse is filled with people whose names have surely trapped them in interactions like the one above due to their pop culture presence. Writer Jesse McLaren tweeted in search of these poor souls, and the responses deserve our sympathy.
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McLaren kicked things off, and it's got us thinking song names may be the most punished of all.
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That's tough sledding, Mike
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You certainly do
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And THERE it is, right on time
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One candle lit for every time they've had to hear "No running in my lobby!"
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What's...going on here?
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That's so sad. Alexa, play "Emotional Machine" by Marina
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Arguably an honor?
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What's a king to a god?
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PSA to Drake fans
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It's gonna be Key & Peele forever, A-a-ron
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If your name is another pop culture victim, we're sending good vibes.
David Attenboroughs VR project Hold the World is absolutely astonishing
David Attenboroughs VR project Hold the World is absolutely astonishing
You don't get many people who've been at the forefront of innovation in media like Sir David Attenborough.
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Having brought Britain colour television, as well as his wealth of natural history programmes like Blue Planet and Planet Earth, David Attenborough will be stepping into VR at the start of June with Sky in his VR project Hold the World.
Hold the World has been made by Sky and Factory 42(opens in a new tab). In it, you are transported to the Natural History Museum in London, where a hologram of Sir David talks you through various artifacts and specimens which you are able to pick up, turn around, expand and shrink at will. The team at Factory 42 had to select just a few objects from the museum's collection of over 80 million.

A virtual David Attenborough encourages you to play with a blue whale skeleton. Credit: Sky

Rarely in a museum do you get the chance to have a massive pterodactyl swoop over your head
I went to try out the VR experience at Sky headquarters, and it was genuinely wonderful. As a natural history nerd who spent probably thousands of hours darting around the Natural History Museum as a child, this VR experience offers the chance to do something most kids in museums can only dream of -- messing around with the exhibits.
This is exactly why Sir David was so excited to get involved in Hold the World. "The one thing that really frustrates you in a museum is when you see something really fascinating, you don't want to be separated from it by glass," he told a Q&A panel on May 23rd. "You want to be able to look at it and see the back of it and turn it around and so on."
In the VR you can play with artefacts which in real life are so delicate even world-class scientists aren't allowed to handle them. Even better once you're done playing with the static objects they come to life. Rarely in a museum do you get the chance to have a massive pterodactyl swoop over your head.
"The opportunity to bring specimens to life like this has been incredible," said a spokesperson for the museum. "Animating the skeletons and fossils within the experience was particularly exciting for our scientists. Combining 3D scans with behavioural data that experts have gathered over years of study has resulted in both beautiful and scientifically accurate animations. It was a fascinating challenge to work alongside animators to produce an immersive experience that is as accurate as it can possibly be.”
Meanwhile the holographic Sir David walks you through the most interesting parts of the artefacts, telling you facts like the mystery of the whale's defunct hip-bones (it's thought they might be there to anchor the animal's genitalia) making the whole thing a uniquely personal experience.
To be rendered as a hologram, Attenborough had to be flown to Microsoft studios in Seattle, to be filmed by a total of 106 cameras. "It's quite creepy really," Attenborough said about the experience, "you go into a room where everything is green."

It looks like he's in some kind of futuristic video-prison... Credit: Sky

The amount of Brits out there who would willingly sacrifice a finger or two to have a private guided tour of the Natural History Museum with David Attenborough is probably in the thousands (yes that's hyperbole, but come on, it's David freakin' Attenborough) and this VR experience offers precisely that.
The VR experience will be available at the beginning of June in the Sky VR app on Google Daydream View, Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift.

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Eyes on the ball, folks.
There's general agreement at this point among people who aren't actively lying to the American public about the 2020 election that Ted Cruz bears some responsibility for the violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6. So it's not really a leap to view Cruz's sudden interest in beefing with Seth Rogen on Twitter as a limp attempt to get people thinking about something else.
The Hollywood star rocketed to the top of Twitter trends on Sunday morning after a days-long back-and-forth with Cruz. The antagonistic tweeting escalated after a late Saturday comment from the Senator that described Rogen as "a Marxist with Tourette's," referencing a neurological disorder(Opens in a new tab) that manifests with physical and verbal tics.

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Rogen swiftly took exception to Cruz's comment. "As someone who has Tourette’s in their family (and also has a very mild case himself), I once again take great pleasure in telling you to go fuck yourself," he tweeted in response(Opens in a new tab), adding that the "uncontrollable swearing" Cruz ascribed to Tourette's actually manifests in "VERY few cases." (Rogen himself deals with "twitching," as he described it.)
While Rogen clearly had his reasons for taking Cruz's attempted insult personally, observers on in and out of Hollywood were quick to note that the Senator's sudden interest in nurturing a Twitter beef. Cruz and his fellow Senator, Missouri's Josh Hawley, are facing calls from across the political spectrum to resign or face stiff consequences (including ejection from the Senate) for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
While it's not clear if or when those repercussions will happen, Cruz seems to recognize that time and distance from Jan. 6 makes it easier for him to dodge responsibility. So as Rogen's name started trending Sunday, tweeting around the whole back-and-forth took a sharp turn toward reminding everyone watching to not lose sight of Cruz's bigger troubles.
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A 24-year-old city council candidate is using super weird ads to get out the vote
A 24-year-old city council candidate is using super weird ads to get out the vote
Hayden Pedigo wants you to know that he's running for city council.
The 24-year-old musician announced his bid for a seat on the Amarillo, Texas council in a Facebook post(opens in a new tab) in August. In the bizarre clip, Pedigo tosses a folding chair across a creek, pulls out a measuring tape, and proceeds to measure the roads around him. He scrambles over rocks, gets down on the ground, and throws his folding chair off various places around Amarillo.
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"I believe that a lot of local small business owners out here are straight up getting bonked," he states at the end of the video, before a retro title card flashes his name and "FOR PLACE 2 AMARILLO CITY COUNCIL."

Though the ad gained local popularity on Facebook, it reached an international audience when someone posted it on Reddit(opens in a new tab) on Thursday.
"He wants a seat on city council so he's bringing his own," Redditor Schmeeble commented, trying to decipher the surreal video. "He will make sure his seat will transcend obstacles (throwing over stuff) and with a measured confidence he is not afraid of getting down to the ground level issues."
According to Pedigo, Schmeeble isn't far off. He's tired of seeing his friends leave Amarillo for Austin or Portland because they "didn't think Amarillo fit into the larger picture."
"I wanted to start a discussion on local government amongst people my age who otherwise would never care about anything that happens locally," he explained over Facebook Messenger.
Like an MTV video from the '80s, Pedigo's campaign ads all have a sort of grungy, DIY vibe.

He said he wants the ads to "change the meaning behind a campaign video," since many people think of them as tools for negativity.
"These videos exist outside of that," he explained. "The videos are completely absurd but they don't convey any type of negativity. I think everyone in America is politically exhausted and I want this to be a breath of fresh air."
Running in hopes of being a "better representation of Amarillo's younger population," Pedigo wants the city to maintain its historical areas.
"The north side of town has been severely neglected and that [is] something very important to me," he said.

And what about small business owners?
"Well, they're getting bonked," he stated, matter of factly.
When asked if he had a plan to "keep them from getting bonked," Pedigo didn't hold back.
"Well if the city focused more on business outside of a four mile radius on the wealthy side of town," he ranted. "The bonking would be considerably lower."
Oh, and he wants people under 30 to vote in their local elections.

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Maybe a similar shirt, or even the exact same jacket?
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Okay, well how about matching with the carpet.
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That photo, shared by journalist Ilona Burton on Wednesday, has now been retweeted over 6000 times.
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It's nearly impossible to scroll through my TikTok For You Page without being faced with an onslaught of influencers trying to get me to buy something from their Amazon storefronts.
I understand why it might be so popular on my FYP. I love stuff. I love sweaters and books and gadgets and toys for my cat and tiny little guys I can put on my shelf(Opens in a new tab). But I also don't have an Amazon Prime membership, and I do my best not to shop through the site for a variety of reasons, including:
- The company made billions of dollars after the Covid-19 pandemic first began to spread, but it still didn't give workers hazard pay. This led to at least seven deaths(Opens in a new tab).
- Despite calls for the biggest companies in the world to decrease their emissions, Amazon's carbon footprint increased by 15 percent in 2019(Opens in a new tab).
- Amazon workers are twice as likely to be injured than the industry average, according to the Strategic Organizing Center(Opens in a new tab).
- It is harmful to artists, writers, and publishers(Opens in a new tab).
- Amazon sells its facial recognition technology(Opens in a new tab) to law enforcement agencies.
- It consistently tries to stop its workers from unionizing for better treatment(Opens in a new tab).
Despite it all, I'm still faced with videos of influencers whose style I like telling me they got something beautiful on Amazon — and to make sure I go to their Amazon storefront to order it.
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The idea of storefronts isn't new for Amazon; it's just sort of an influencer-centric version of its Amazon Associates Program (AAP), in which anyone can choose products they want to promote, drive traffic from outside Amazon onto the shopping platform, and make a small commission from anyone who buys from that.
"Historically, that has really helped Amazon to build traffic," Yoni Mazor, the CGO of GETIDA(Opens in a new tab), a program that works to improve the operations of Amazon FBA [Fulfillment by Amazon] sellers, told Mashable. "But in the past few years, since at least in 2017, the Amazon Influencer Program [AIP] kicked in. Amazon started to reshuffle the cards."
Amazon "identified the rise of social media and influencers," according to Mazor, and influencers started working with the AIP to set up storefronts and earn some extra cash. Influencers earn the same commission rates as associates.
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"The Amazon Influencer Program helps creators build their small businesses by recommending products they already love and use to their followers," Meredith Silver, Amazon's director of creative growth, told Mashable in an email. "Whether it’s a creator’s full-time job or part-time venture, we provide the tools and educational opportunities to help them grow their small business in an authentic way."
Creators earn with the AIP by curating their storefront, linking to products, promoting Amazon services like Prime Video and Amazon Music, and livestreaming and recommending products through Amazon Live. Similar to the AAP, creators get a "commission halo effect," which allows them to continue to earn for 24 hours from the time a customer clicks through their associate link to Amazon and makes any those purchases. Creators make anywhere from a few dollars to $1,500 a month, according to Business Insider(Opens in a new tab), with commission rates ranging from one percent to 10 percent.
And it seems to be pretty helpful for Amazon's business model.
Nearly half of all Gen Z customers have bought a product based on a recommendation from an influencer when compared to the rest of the population, according to a 2020 study(Opens in a new tab). And Andrew Pearl, the vice president for marketing insights at e-commerce software provider Profitero, told Modern Retail(Opens in a new tab) that influencers involved in the AIP have been crucial in the success of Prime Day.
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"For Prime Day this time and in July, TikTok users watch these videos, and use a link directly from TikTok which sends them to the influencer’s Amazon Storefront directly on the Amazon app," Pearl told the outlet. "So you can go directly from TikTok to shopping on Prime Day. This seems to be ubiquitous across all influencers."
In order to get involved with the AIP, creators have to have apply(Opens in a new tab) with a qualifying YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook account. It's not entirely clear what "qualifying" really means here, but Amazon looks at "the number of followers" someone has in addition to "other engagement metrics." The platform doesn't say why a creator is accepted or rejected into the program, but once they are accepted, they're allowed to create a storefront and drive sales directly there. On TikTok, influencers show off their Amazon purchases in what are effectively commercials for the items, telling their followers, "Hey, if you want to buy this, check out my storefront at the link in my bio." There, they've collected all their favorite Amazon items — from mugs to vacuums to dresses — for their followers to access.
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"It wouldn't hurt if TikTok wanted to support unions and Amazon workers, but I'm more pragmatic in thinking that that's not gonna happen, and understanding that it's going to have to come from us, and there's something authentic with that," Elise Joshi, Gen Z for Change's deputy executive director and director of strategy, told Mashable. "We want other people in this country to have the right to have a safe working environment and just labor conditions and the right to bargain with your boss for better wages and benefits. There's something more meaningful to that than insisting that TikTok prevents Amazon from coming on their site. There's something more human-to-human about our strategy that I like a lot.
Amazon is millennials' favorite way to shop(Opens in a new tab), but this isn't necessarily a generational issue.
"Amazon needs to keep their company chugging, and that comes with this culture of shopping and consumption. It's not a young person issue. It's a very intergenerational issue," Joshi said. "But in order to capitalize on the fact that young people are on TikTok more than older generations, [Amazon] knows that if they monetize hundreds of creators' platforms and drive young people onto their sites, that they can have a hold on our generation particularly."
UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2022, 9:14 a.m. EDT A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that AAP commission rates are lower than that of the AIP. They earn the same commission rates. It was also incorrectly stated that only creators part of the AIP get the commission halo effect, when both influencers and associates receive the commission halo effect.
I May Destroy You is a defining moment for on-screen portrayals of consent and sexual violence
I May Destroy You is a defining moment for on-screen portrayals of consent and sexual violence
Content warning: This review contains discussion of rape and sexual violence.
You won't be able to shake I May Destroy You from your thoughts. After watching, you'll close your laptop, or turn off your television, but I guarantee you this: it will stay with you. Created by Chewing Gum writer Michaela Coel, this new 12-part BBC One/HBO drama tackles the intersection of sexual assault, consent, and race in a radical way that is rarely, if ever, seen on screen.
Episode 1 begins with Arabella (Coel), a young millennial writer living in London, pulling an all-nighter in a last minute attempt to finish the book she's been writing. When she takes a break to meet up with friends (setting a one-hour alarm for herself), the night changes course. The following day, she has no recollection of how she got back to her desk, or how her phone screen got smashed, or why there's blood pouring from a gash on her forehead. Arabella is disorientated, confused, and grappling with a disturbing flashback of someone being raped. That someone, she later realises, was her.

These events unfold in a way that is infused with striking realism — and that is no accident. In Aug. 2018, while delivering the McTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Coel said she was raped when she was writing Season 2 of Chewing Gum. "I was working overnight in the [production] company's offices; I had an episode due at 7 a.m. I took a break and had a drink with a good friend who was nearby," said(Opens in a new tab) Coel. When she regained consciousness, she was typing Season 2. "I had a flashback. It turned out I’d been sexually assaulted by strangers. The first people I called after the police, before my own family, were the producers."
In the press materials sent by the BBC, Coel makes reference to the real-life roots of the story. "All in all, the hardest thing was not getting distracted in wonderment at the confounding reality of having turned a rather bleak reality into a TV show that created real jobs for hundreds of people," she said.
But, out of this bleak reality, Coel has created something that challenges on-screen depictions of sex, consent, and assault. Black women have been historically been erased from conversations about sexual violence. That omission is rooted in racism that can be traced back to the time of slavery, when rape was only considered something that happened to white women. As Vanessa Ntinu wrote(Opens in a new tab) in gal-dem, "Historically, black women are perceived as objects of sexual exploitation, dating back to days of slavery where the concept of rape was never applied to the black woman simply because she was assumed to have been a willing and promiscuous participant."
In those first few episodes of I May Destroy You, Coel explores an aspect of sexual violence that gets little attention: unacknowledged rape(Opens in a new tab). Psychologists use this term to describe sexual violence that fits a legal description of rape or assault, but is not labelled as such by the survivor. For the first two episodes, Arabella doesn't realise she's been assaulted. Even when talking to a police officer about that night, she urges caution in the police officer's interpretation of her disturbing flashback, the images she couldn't shake from her mind. Coel brings to life an element of assault survivors' experience — the difficulty of realising that you've been raped because the reality of rape is so different to how it's portrayed on screens and in the media(Opens in a new tab).
Later in the series, when Arabella's agents introduce her to another writer, Zain, to assist somehow in the writing of her book, the two end up having sex. What Arabella doesn't realise, though, is that Zain removes the condom midway through — a violation that is also known as "stealthing,"(Opens in a new tab) a form of sexual assault.
Arabella's story isn't the only remarkable part of this show. Her best male friend Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) has a storyline that explores black masculinity, internalised homophobia, and male experiences of rape. Meanwhile, Arabella's other best friend Terry (Weruche Opia) endures a racist microaggression during an audition for a supposedly empowering advert when a white casting director asks her to take off her wig so she can see her natural hair.
This show is coming to our screens at a pivotal moment in history — as protests continue across America and parts of the globe against racism and police brutality, following the police killing of George Floyd, who died after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
The contents of I May Destroy You has the power to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about who rape happens to, and what sexual violence really looks like. That act of service could not be more necessary.
I May Destroy You debuts on HBO on Sunday, June 7, and on BBC One on Monday, June 8. Both episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer from Monday.
I slept without my phone for a week, and now I want a new alarm clock
I slept without my phone for a week, and now I want a new alarm clock
Having trouble sleeping? Hit Snooze is Mashable's deep dive into the many ways to achieve a more peaceful slumber.
Recently, I've had to adjust to sleeping alone.
I've slept with the same companion for as long as I can remember, but lately I've been thinking that some time apart might be healthy. After years of sleeping no more than two feet away from this companion every night, I took the terrifying initiative to put some physical space between us. It wasn't easy, but it turned out to be a valuable learning experience.
To be clear, I'm not talking about distancing myself from another human being. The companion I decided to part ways with at night is my phone.
I sleep beside my iPhone every single night and spend hours texting, scrolling through social media, and watching television shows in the dark. I lie in bed and strain my eyes to look at the screen until I fall asleep, and when insomnia strikes in the middle of the night I reach for the device again to comfort me.

How close my phone usually is to me at night. Credit: Getty Images / iStockphoto

I know that using my phone in bed is bad, OK? I'm well aware that blue light can stress your eyes and reduce your quality of sleep, but when I need to slow my racing thoughts in a dark room, staring at my phone works for me.
A former editor once told me that he sleeps in an entirely different room as his phone to ensure he's able to properly unwind before bed. He charges the phone downstairs in his kitchen, then goes to sleep upstairs in his bedroom. Hearing this shocked me, since I struggled to imagine myself in a different room as my phone at night. But it was always something I admired and wanted to try one day, so I thought Mashable's Hit Snooze was the perfect opportunity.
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I planned to sleep in a different room as my phone for an entire week. I decided to charge the phone out in the hall so it'd be far enough away to discourage usage, but close enough that I could access it in the event of an emergency. I dug out this gorgeous relic — a Sony Dream Machine alarm and clock radio — from my basement. I plugged it in, and set my first non-phone alarm in more than a decade for 8:00 a.m.

Vintage Sony Dream Machine alarm clock. Credit: nicole gallucci / mashable

Day 1: Wednesday
I started my phone-less experiment on Wednesday, March 18. Thankfully, I was tired from waking up early that morning to get some work done, so when I headed to bed around 11:30 p.m. my body didn't have the energy to worry about not being able to complete its usual Twitter or Instagram check. I drifted off to sleep minutes after my head hit the pillow, and the experiment was off to a promising start. Then, I woke up at 6:00 a.m.
My alarm wasn't set to go off for another two hours, and I didn't have my phone to distract me, so after 20 minutes of lying there — overthinking what felt like every aspect of my life — I decided to get up and start my day early... again. I wound up being productive rather than staring at my phone in bed for two hours, which was nice. But I was a little bummed that I didn't get my authentic alarm clock wakeup.
Day 2: Thursday
Great news! By Wednesday night I was wiped the hell out from waking up early the past few days, so I once again fell asleep without issue. I slept a full night, but was startled awake at 8:00 a.m. by my alarm clock's horrendous-sounding buzzer. Not the nicest sound to wake up to, but an overall successful sleep away from my phone.
Since I snoozed a solid eight hours on Wednesday night, I wasn't able to fall asleep as quickly on Thursday night. I was awake until around 1:30am worrying about the state of the world, and eventually decided to turn the lights back on and read a physical book to distract myself. Once I got tired enough, I turned the lights off and fell right to sleep.
I was particularly pumped for my alarm clock to go off Friday morning, because I changed it from "buzzer" to "radio" and was hoping to wake up to something fun like Lizzo. But much to my dismay I didn't get to experience the radio, because (again) I opened my eyes around 6:00 a.m. I decided it'd be best to get up and start my day early. "It's fine!" I thought. "The weekend is almost here, which means I'll catch up on all my sleep."
Day 3: Friday
Boy, was I wrong. I usually stay up later on weekend nights and, as I mentioned before, catch up on texts or TV shows. Since I knew I couldn't spend hours on my phone if I went to bed at a reasonable time, I stayed up until midnight even though I was incredibly tired. Big mistake. HUGE.
When I finally went upstairs and parted ways with my beloved device, I was so overtired that I proceeded to lie awake in bed for a full and torturous hour and a half. I finally fell asleep around 1:30 a.m., but woke up at 4:00 a.m. for a while, and again at 6:00 a.m. from a coronavirus nightmare. Instead of staying in bed I got up and went to the store as soon as it opened to pick up some essentials. This was by far my worst phone-less night of the week.

What I wish I was doing on Friday night. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images

Day 4: Saturday
The only bright side of not sleeping well on Friday night was that when I got into bed on Saturday night I was so exhausted that I fell asleep immediately. I even slept until 8:30 a.m. Love that journey for me.
Day 5: Sunday
My mind was racing on Sunday night, and I was dying to tweet a dumb thought I had about Gilmore Girls and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. At one point I even reached for my phone to go on Twitter, but the phone was in the hall so I couldn't tweet. "It's probably better this way," I thought to myself with a chuckle. "No one actually needed to read that thought."
I fell asleep after a few minutes of thinking, then finally woke up to the radio. But I got scammed. Instead of music, a Geico ad was playing. 🙄
Day 6: Monday
An important article of mine published on Monday, so I felt relived by the time I went to sleep that night. I fell asleep pretty fast, but guess who woke up early again on Tuesday? (In the experiment's defense, Tuesday was the 15th anniversary of The Office and I was too excited to sleep.)
Day 7: Tuesday
After a successful day spent celebrating The Office, I unwound before bed Tuesday night by reading a book and got a full night's sleep.
At 8:00 a.m. a familiar sound coaxed me awake. "Straight Up," the 1988 jam by Paula Abdul, was playing from my alarm clock. It was the best wakeup I've had all year. I smiled, I wriggled a little under my bedding, and I let the song finish before I got up to turn the alarm clock off. The experiment ended on the perfect note.

I made it through the week, and I'm proud of myself
Before I embarked on my phone-less week of sleep, I was terrified. My insomnia has gotten increasingly worse as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow, so I wasn't sure if I was emotionally ready to be apart from my go-to distraction at night. The experiment wasn't always easy, but I made it through, and it wasn't as hard as I feared it would be.
I did have a few very early mornings, and had I had my phone nearby I probably would have been able to check it for a few minutes and then fall back to sleep. But I did like the feeling of waking up and getting out of bed without spending any time on social media.
I thought falling asleep without my phone would be way more difficult than it was, but the experiment reminded me that there are other ways to tire myself out before bed, like reading books or writing. For me, the hardest nights were Friday and Saturday. I found that I really cherish staying plugged in later on weekend nights, and I missed unwinding from the week by staying up late and watching TV in bed.
Ultimately, I genuinely enjoyed sleeping without my phone in the room during the week, and plan to buy a more high-tech alarm clock and try to make phone-less weekday sleeps a regular thing. But I've decided I can have little a phone in bed on the weekends, as a treat.
Eastbay just dropped the latest colorway of Nikes Vaporfly 4% Flyknit running shoe
Eastbay just dropped the latest colorway of Nikes Vaporfly 4% Flyknit running shoe
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Nike’s hard-to-get running shoes have a cult following among sneaker nerds and marathon runners alike, and now you can grab yourself a pair in sweet new colors.
When Nike released its first generation of the Vaporfly 4%(Opens in a new tab) — with a promise to improve running economy by 4 percent — sneaker scientists rushed to the lab to put them to the test and studies(Opens in a new tab) found these kicks actually do make you run faster. You’ll want to secure a pair in this season’s hottest new colorway, Black/Crimson, at Eastbay(Opens in a new tab) stat.
Comfortable, lightweight fit and feel
Replacing the mesh in the original version, the latest version features a one-piece Flyknit upper that improves breathability in warm conditions, reduces irritation for longer runs, and provides support where you need it most — just like your best running buddy.

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Superior stability
These running shoes have your foot on lockdown for a stable running platform with an internal archband that wraps around your midfoot, integrated laces, and an internal heel counter. The streamlined, racing fit profile is all-around snug and contoured.
Cutting-edge midsole
As the name suggests, the Nike ZoomX ultra-lightweight foam gives you that extra boost to go faster. The bouncy, super-responsive material plus an embedded, carbon-fiber plate offer impressive energy return with every stride and actually propels you forward.
Powerful outsole
Engineered to optimize traction, the outsole has a combination of lug shapes and sizes to make each step faster and more powerful than the last – kind of like hitting fast-forward on your feet.

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Pretty pink salads are the photogenic dish lighting up Instagram
Pretty pink salads are the photogenic dish lighting up Instagram
Sure, you've heard and seen just about everything in so-called millennial pink.
OK, but how about in your salad? A pink chicory called Radicchio del Veneto is lighting up Instagram feeds and restaurants with its photogenic, bright shades of pink.
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The variety of radicchio is primarily grown in the Veneto region in Italy, but is also grown in California, Pennsylvania, and in other places around the U.S., according to Eater(opens in a new tab), who dubbed its taste "slightly bitter, slightly sweet."
The vegetable develops that pink hue by being "forced," which essentially means it's grown for a certain time, harvested, then replanted and grown in the dark so sunlight doesn't reach its stem.

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Those rosy leaves certainly make for an interesting addition to salads, as evidenced by this dish by New York City's King restaurant. Especially if you're not so big on the greens.

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Or heck, it'd just make for one pretty flower.

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