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Almost out of thin air, ARC has materialized as a newcomer on the electric bike scene, and they’ve taken the spotlight at EICMA to unveil their advanced Vector electric motorcycle. 

Not only has ARC made an absolute stunner of a bike, they’ve also introduced an entire ecosystem for riders, one that includes a heads-up display (HUD) integrated into the helmet and haptic body armor.

The Vector looks like a futuristic work of art, but features like its 170 mile range, ability to go from 0 to 60mph in 2.7 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 150mph are extremely impressive stats for a new kid on the scene. 

That top speed indicates that the Vector is likely able to go faster—but tampering with ARC’s engineering seems like a dumb idea.

The forethought in the design here is impressive. The windshield is conspicuously absent, but that’s because the fighter-pilot style helmet blocks the wind instead. 

More importantly, it also displays the pertinent stats you’d usually see on the instrument cluster. That means speedometer, revs and more are beamed right into the driver’s field of view.

One of ARC’s biggest innovations is the haptic body armor. Like any motorcycle wearable, the armor is intended for safety and protecting against road rash in case of a spill—but the haptic sensors can inform the rider of road hazards and other dangers via rumbles to different areas of your torso.

These are, by far, some of the most interesting innovations coming in the motorcycle space, from bike to helmet to armor. It’s impossible to not be impressed with ARC bursting on the scene and coming through with some truly exciting tech. 

Tech that may very well turn into standard equipment in the not-to-distant future. 

Footage of vicious MMA knockouts is never easy to watch. Something about this clip of the final second of the final round of the UFC Fight Night 139 match between featherweights Yair Rodriguez and “Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung is particularly hard to take. 

Part of what makes it difficult to watch is knowing that Chan was on the verge of winning.

The fighters were in the final moments of round 5 when Rodriguez pulled a strange move that seemed to throw Chan, throwing his hands up as if the match was over. Chan responded then they regrouped and began fighting again, Chan coming hard at his opponent, ready to close the deal. 

He came in with a monster left hook that missed. His momentum carried him into Rodriguez’s thrust elbow and that put out the lights in—literally—the last second of the match. 

The knockout was so thorough there was some initial worry Chan wouldn’t get up again. 

For his part, Rodriguez was exhausted and looked for a moment like he wasn’t in any better shape than Chan. He was, though, because he won.

He later gave a respectful callout to his featherweight opponent on Instagram, writing “Thanks to @koreanzombiemma for a war and for the respect given by his team, all my respect and admiration.”

Rodriguez’s elbow jab was so sharp it likely caused sympathetic pain in many viewers’ jaws, and it was about as epic as the UFC can get. Outside, the UFC, though, it still may have competition for knockout blow of the year from this wicked spinning elbow in a South African Extreme Fighting match over a week ago.

Torbjorn Madsen was on the receiving end of that elbow delivered by Mzwandile Hlongwa, and Madsen later termed the whole thing “fun.”

Seems like a sure bet Chan Sung Jung didn’t feel like he was having fun. Actually, for a minute or two he wasn’t feeling anything at all.

The stars of Step Brothers will never stop teasing fans about the possibility of a sequel. That’s the takeaway from a recent statement by John C. Reilly, a.k.a. Dale Doback. 

Asked about it in an appearance on Good Morning America to promote Holmes and Watson, his new movie with Will “Brennan Huff” Ferrell, Reilly admitted he’d be down with another trip to the Catalina Wine Mixer. “Yeah, it’s possible,” he said, “It requires the cooperation of a few other people but I would love to do another one of those.”

Reilly seems like one of the most affable actors in the business so it’s possible he was deflecting by just kind of rolling with the premise, but given past statements by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, it seems like these guys like working together and would find it fun to play brothers again. 

In 2017, Ferrell said, “We’ve talked a little about Step Brothers, so who knows?”

In early 2018, McKay reportedly said a sequel could happen within five years, because he doesn’t “think the Step Brothers idea gets worse the older these guys get.”

It’s easy to see a pattern developing here. 

If it happens, it would be great to fold John C. Reilly’s old school rapping chops into the script. He’s got ’em, and he recently displayed those skills on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning.

Maybe Reilly is overdue for his own comedy feature, though. One where he doesn’t share the screen with a fellow comedy icon like Will Ferrell or a heavyweight actor like Joaquin Phoenix. 

Dr. Steve Brule, it’s time for your closeup.

On the Saturday Night Live preceding mid-term elections for 2018, Pete Davidson riffed on Republicans running for office and joked that eyepatch-wearing Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw in particular looked “like a hitman in a porno movie.” 

Davidson was deservedly roasted on social media. On last night’s “Weekend Update,” he apologized to Crenshaw in person—and while the apology was accepted, Crenshaw got in some shots of his own, every one of them funnier than the “hitman” joke.

Davidson was contrite and his apology seemed sincere. “If any good came of this,” he said, “it’s that for one day, the left and the right came together to agree on something—that I’m a dick.” 

After a beat, Crenshaw rolled on set and said, “You think?”

The following exchange was both surprisingly funny and moving. Davidson told the audience how Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, wears his eyepatch due to injuries received from an IED in Afghanistan. He apologized and Crenshaw accepted, then the congressman-elect’s phone rang.

His ringtone? An Ariana Grande song. 

This might have been the best revenge, but Davidson then offered Crenshaw a chance to rip on a photo of him, and he did. 

“This is Pete Davidson. He looks like if the meth from Breaking Bad was a person.”

“He looks like a troll doll with a tapeworm.” 

“Pete looks like Martin Short in The Santa Claus 3. By the way, one of these people was actually good on SNL.”

After perhaps three of the best jokes on the entire episode, Crenshaw and Davidson both seriously addressed forgiveness and understanding and the meaning of Veteran’s Day. 

Crenshaw said that instead of “Thank you for your service,” Americans should say, “never forget.” 

“We’ll never forget those who died on 9/11,” Crenshaw said, shaking Davidson’s hand, “Like Pete’s father.”

It’s no secret that Saturday Night Live‘s sharpest satire is from a progressive perspective—though President Donald Trump was even a guest host in the past, he’s regularly skewered by Alec Baldwin’s bizarre impersonation. 

Crenshaw’s appearance was striking for setting partisan politics aside with good humor and using that to lead into addressing something important, like respect for veterans and for Veteran’s Day. In what was perhaps an otherwise unmemorable episode of SNL, it made for one of the most memorable moments of the season.

For the past almost-decade, I’ve been searching for the perfect hangover cure. I’ve tried tactics as ancient as laurel-leaf crowns, as dirty as chimney soot in a mug of milk, as esoteric as putting a lemon wedge in my armpit, as new age as chi-centering bracelets, and as dodgy as taking street drugs. Some things have worked better than others.

I did, eventually, land on a particular concoction that I feel confident enough, at least in regards to my own hangovers, to call a cure. The full details, as well as countless personal misadventures and hangover stories throughout the ages, are in my new book, Hungover. 

But here—compiled from the breadth of human history, countless boozy rabbit-holes and far too many personal experiments—are five of the most interesting, and perhaps even helpful, treatments that I found during my quest.

Jumping Off a Very Tall Building

This first one I discovered by accident, at ground-zero for hangovers. There is a place in Las Vegas called “Hangover Heaven,” where the founding doctor claims to have cured more cases than anyone ever. And so I tested his expertise by drinking far too much, putting myself in his hands, then doing things you would never want to do with a hangover.

I drove a race car, piloted a fighter plane, shot bazookas, and ziplined into a canyon. The most consistent result was extreme nausea, with a bit of hallucination. But when I took my lingering hangover to the Stratosphere, and the highest sky-jump in North America, something interesting happened. It blew the bottle-ache right out of me.

Of course, massive adrenaline spikes—especially when coupled with a fight-or-flight scenario—can outweigh most physical realities of the human body, at least for a short time. But then a crash (at least chemically) once the adrenaline has run its course, is inevitable. Or is it? From my experience it appears at least possible that something shocking enough, both physically and metaphysically—like jumping off the tallest building west of the Mississippi—might reboot your system entirely.

Eggs

Along with pickled fish and boiled cabbage, eggs (be they duck, goose or just good old chicken) appear in more hangover remedies than almost anything else in history.

 In his listing of ancient cures, Pliny the Elder references “Two-owl eggs in wine.” During the course of a very specific experiment (in which I attempted to drink twelve pints in twelve English pubs) I surveyed a dozen British barkeeps, and nearly every one of them recommended “a proper fry-up.” (Main ingredient: eggs). 

Then, of course, there’s Arnold Schwarzenegger in End of Days who—as the world’s least-likely alcoholic—blends raw eggs into the previous night’s leftovers before going to fight his more literal demons.

And they all might actually be onto something. Eggs contain N-acetylcysteine—an amino acid supplement that is pretty much a magic ingredient when it comes to treating hangovers. In fact, it is one of the key components in my own ultimate cure.

Hair of the Dog

Eggs aside, throughout history people have done all sorts of weird things involving animals in the hopes of curing a hangover. It is said that the epic drinkers of Outer Mongolia pickled the eyeballs of sheep, horse wranglers in the Wild West made tea out of rabbit shit, and my Welsh ancestors roasted the lungs of a pig. But the most common remedy has always been figurative: to pluck a hair of the dog that bit you.

The idea of recovering from your drinks by drinking a little more appears to be timeless, and the first ever cocktails were invented for precisely this purpose. 

They were called pick-me-ups, and came in two basic categories: sweet, soft soothers meant to ease you back to baseline with something milky, fruit, relaxing and restorative (these have names like Morning Glory, Milk of Human Kindness and Mother’s Little Helper), or short, sharp, shocks intended to twist your system into sobriety with bitterness, blinding heat and/or gag reflex (Khan’s Curse, Suffering Bastard, Guy Fawke’s Explosion…)

But no matter the taste and the name, a classic hair of the dog may actually help—even according to science. Beyond feasibly curbing the down-swoop of booze leaving your system, the introduction of more ethanol (the magical essence of alcohol) can stop your body from breaking down methanol—a nasty molecule that sneaks into most alcoholic drinks, and turns into formaldehyde when broken down.

Of course, hairs of the dog should be used cautiously so as not to embark on a whole new hangover.

IV Treatments

These have been around for quite a while now, at least as long as doctors and medical students have had access to both booze and the appropriate apparatuses.

 Today you can find specialty clinics in most major cities—like Hangover Heaven in Las Vegas—that offer their own renditions of the classic “Myer’s Cocktail”: a drip concoction, created by Dr. John Myer’s, containing magnesium, calcium and various vitamins. The refining of such IV treatments has become the business of a whole industry and a legitimate hope for hungover souls.

I have done many such treatments. And I’ve found that if you can get yourself from wherever you are to wherever the IV is—or visa-versa— they really can help. But it’s worth noting that if you’re already in the throes of an all-out, full-body hangover, they’ll only help so much. Once the hangover is underway, it is not so much a question of curing it, but rather shortening the duration, and minimizing the pain. IV treatments are at least good for that.

Being Buried Alive

Of course everyone wants to cure a hangover once they’ve got one. But by then it’s pretty much too late.

The real, ultimate cure (that you can find when you buy my book!) depends very much on you taking it before the complicated mechanism of hangover has ever begun—that is, at the end of drinking, and before sleeping. But if you have failed to do that, here is yet another method I found of trying to remedy the situation:

You climb, or drive, or helicopter yourself to a remote hilltop in the Alps, descend into a catacomb, lie for awhile in a coffin of herb and grass-infused water poured from a boiling cauldron, emerge to be buried completely in hay, lay with the remnants of your hangover for just a bit longer, then finally arise—up and out, into the mountain air. Then you sit down for a plate of food, and some ancient orange Austrian wine.

That seemed to work fairly well, too.

 “Hungover” by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall is available for pre-order here.

Did you catch this post last time? If so, simply continue on for a trove of inspiration and shopping. If not, here’s the rundown… As someone who was actually pretty late in the game (the game here being Instagram’s Saved collections), I now wonder what I was thinking. I love utilizing the feature to save anything from funny memes to interestingly composed photos to fashion pieces I love (and, naturally, want to buy). Speaking of that latter use, I decided to start reaching out to my fellow Who What Wear editors to find out what they’ve been eyeing too. Needless to say, they deliver every time. To see and shop the fashion items we currently have saved to our Instagram collections, just keep reading.

Up next: 34 under-$500 It bags I found just for you.

Singles’ Day? It’s okay—we weren’t familiar with the holiday either until we started doing some research. But let’s be real: We’ll take any excuse necessary to shop a sale. Singles’ Day is one of China’s largest shopping days; consider it the equivalent of Cyber Monday in the U.S.

This obscure holiday was started back in the ’90s as a silly way to bring some positive attention to the single people out in the world. The choice date is no coincidence, either (11/11 is all ones, in case you missed it). So whether you’re single or not, tomorrow is a day celebrated by some of your favorite retailers, and we wanted you to have the inside scoop on how you can score the best deals. From The Outnet to H&M, get ready to shop the best Singles’ Day sales of 2018.

I’m kind of obsessed with minimalist style. Even though the trends everyone’s talking about at the moment are far from subdued, I still have a real sweet spot for clean, pared-down aesthetics. I mean, do the Instagram feeds of influencers like Débora Rosa and Christie Tyler not give you all the feels? Mhm, that’s what I thought. Since the biggest shopping holiday of the year is right around the corner, I thought I’d go ahead and prep a Black Friday capsule shopping list for minimalist style.

At any given time, there are a number of minimal style staples in my online shopping cart, so ahead of Black Friday shopping, I compiled every piece I’m shopping for into one succinct list to share with all my fellow minimalists at heart. In the below edit, you can expect to find items like structured handbags (I’m currently saving up for the Mansur Gavriel Elegant Leather Bag), sleek loafers from The Row, and elegant slip skirts like the one from Georgia Alice. Feel free to add any and all of these minimalist closet staples to your cart, too, so that when all the Black Friday deals hit the web, you’ll know exactly what it is you’re aiming to purchase. Happy shopping, minimalists!

Be sure to prep for Black Friday shopping by reading our insider tips.