Good morning and welcome to Tuesday (or your Monday if you had Presidents Day off. But the good news is it's Tuesday).
It's a slick morning so be careful out there! We're in store for a brief cold snap -- think highs in the teens and subzero lows -- until about Thursday before above average temps return Friday. More on Updraft. | Forecast
We just can't keep up with kids these days -- but when have we ever? The latest sign that we're one step behind comes via the form of adults trying to stem the tide of teen vaping. By the time Juul pulled most of its flavored pods from the market in October of 2019, many teens had already moved on to an array of newer, disposable vape products.
Do you track your sleep with technology? You might want to rethink that. Sleep trackers have become increasingly popular, measuring how you breathe, how fast your heart is beating, how much you're tossing and turning. They crunch that data to produce a sleep score, usually through a smartphone app. But in an irony of our digital lifestyles, for some people, perfecting that sleep score becomes an end unto itself -- so much so that they can lose sleep over it. And there's a name for this new kind of insomnia of the digital age: orthosomnia.
There's just something about empty ice rinks that has a certain ... je ne sais quoi. Photographer Matthew Jasper's new book, "Home Ice," features 72 of the hundreds of ice rinks throughout Minnesota -- all sans skaters or crowds. "I wanted to show off the character of these places without people being distracted by people in the stands or what's going on in the game,” he said. Check out some of those photos here.
Going once, going twice -- it's your last chance to vote in round one! Pick your two favorite Minnesota places, works of art, ideas or inventions in our Minnesota Made Matchup. Our head-to-head matchups of the top picks start Wednesday, just in time for the member drive.
— Nancy Yang, MPR News | 