"I want to be able to demonstrate the strength of Black women in the most truth that I can."

We can wake ourselves up by increasing our oxygen level by breathing deeply. Or conversely, we can put ourselves to sleep with a kind of meditation of shallow breathing, and repeating silently the words to the rhythmic "in" and "out" like a mantra.

NBC's 10-part miniseries, which launches at 8 p.m. Thursday after airing last fall in the U.K., follows a bizarre bunch of people through what are billed as the last 34 days of civilization on the planet Earth.

Adele, may I ask a question? Will you ever give us a solution to your break-ups, or do we have to wait until album 27? 32?