For the past few months, I’ve been wearing an Oura ring to track my sleep. In December, I added a Whoop band for comparison’s sake. I was curious about them because I’ve seen so many athletes professional and recreational say they use devices like these to monitor how well they’re recovering from strenuous workouts. Some even use the gadgets’ feedback to plan future workouts. So I had to try it for myself.
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Watching
Some Kind Of Heaven, an entrancing new documentary about life in a massive Florida retirement community, the mind may drift to a whole library of movies about the plastic unreality of suburban life. Partially, that’s because the film’s director, 24-year-old Lance Oppenheim, plainly takes some cues, visual and tonal, from touchstones of the genre. But it’s also because his subject, the so-called “Disney World for retirees,” was essentially built from the same psychic blueprint as those films: the nostalgic dream image of an unblemished American yesterday, a boomer paradise more imagined than remembered. What Oppenheim has found, in his first feature film, is a real place every bit as art-directed as
Ex-Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Charged for His Role in the Flint Water Crisis
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Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has been charged on two counts of willful neglect of duty for his role in the Flint water crisis, a disaster that exposed more than 100,000 residents of the majority Black city to contaminated drinking water.
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If convicted, Snyder faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine per charge, which seems pretty light for overseeing a hazard that killed 12 people and impacted the health of untold others.
Snyder headed the state in 2014, when officials decided to switch the source of the city’s drinking water from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River as a move to save money. Unfortunately, officials neglected to apply corrosion inhibitors, and as a result, lead from the aging pipes entered the water supply, leading residents to ingest extremely high doses of heavy metals.
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Beckett Mariner and Michael Burnham, two good people, good at their jobs, who’ve guided us on some glorious
Star Trek adventures for the past five-and-a-bit months.
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Star Trek has appeared on CBS All Access, delivering us
Discovery. A lot happened in nearly half a year of boldly going, but looking back, all I can think about was how refreshing it was to watch people enjoy being good at their jobs.
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Even in its most devil-may-care days,
Star Trek has always kind of been a workplace drama about people who are really into their work. It just so happened that their workplace happened to be a starship, and the work so happened to be boldly going where no office drone had gone before and maybe sometimes phasering the bejesus out of something. But it was still
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Smith took to his Instagram on Thursday to share that, after beginning the writing process in late December, he’s now wrapped up the first draft of the movie. He offered up the opening stage directions as proof, and shared a statement about how the heart attack he suffered a few years back factors into the script. He also confirms the return of Jay and Silent Bob, as well as Clerks 2 characters Elias (Trevor Fehrman) and Becky (Rosario Dawson). “[T]he premise of the flick allows anyone who was in