Stevie Wonder on the Keys of Life
Good advice is few and far between, but Stevie Wonder has it in spades. The Motown legend talks with Barney Hoskyns about singing, melody, and the keys to a good life.
Good advice is few and far between, but Stevie Wonder has it in spades. The Motown legend talks with Barney Hoskyns about singing, melody, and the keys to a good life.
The guys at Braille Skateboarding are trying out something new in You Make It We Skate It. Deck manufacturer Invzaboard sent them a bullet-proof glass deck, all ready to thrash. Braille takes it to the park and puts the glass deck through its paces.
The largest hydroelectric dam in the world also has the largest ship elevator in the world. China's Three Gorges Dam stretches nearly 8,000 feet across and 700 feet tall over the Yangtze River. In order to allow ships to pass the dam, a massive elevator lifts and lowers ships across the dam. Here it is in action.
The original Caribou boot carried explorers across arctic landscapes to the top of the world and later became the world's first snowboarding boot, cementing its place as a cold-weather legend. The new Caribou Horizon GTX channels that same grit with refined leather, modern insulation, and premium Gore-Tex protection. Whether cutting through slush-slicked city streets or climbing toward the altitude of après escapes, the Caribou Horizon GTX keeps you moving in life's coldest moments. The horizon is calling—step boldly into adventure and the unknown.
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The return of the Nike Kobe 9 Elite Low EM Protro redefines what "comeback" means. After rupturing his Achilles in 2013, the Black Mamba returned to the hardwood in this very silhouette—a low-top built for speed and legacy. The engineered mesh upper breathes with every drive, while a Nike React foam liner keeps each jab sharp and responsive. Underfoot, the signature "fingerprint" outsole grips like determination—mapping the journey of a player who refused to quit. Build your legacy on and off the court with the signature of an all time great staying with you in every step.
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After a brilliant neurosurgeon loses the fine motor skills necessary for surgery in a car accident, he travels the world over looking for a cure. On his travels he meets the Ancient One, the Supreme Sorcerer that guards Earth from mystical threats. Benedict Cumberbatch is bringing the dark arts to the screen in Doctor Strange, hitting theaters November 4, 2016.
2 Chainz returns to the lavish life to taste some of the world's most expensive coffee. Starting at $600 a pound, Kopi Luwak is partially-digested coffee cherries from the poop of a Asian palm civet. Yes, poop. The beans are ground in a $3,000 Mahlkonig EK43, and then brewed through a $6,000 Blossom brewer. Then end result is a $100 cup of poo.
The first presidential debate took place last night and that can only mean one thing — a new episode of Sognify. The Schmoyoho guys enlist some help from Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein to turn all of that political chit chat into something we can actually enjoy.
If you think the cost of living in cities like New York or San Francisco is expensive, look at the yearly rent for a piece of prime lunar real estate. With a conservative, yearly estimate of $36 billion, living on the Moon is out of reach for anyone on Earth. Wendover Productions breaks the cost of a year on the Moon down, and looks at how commercial spaceflight could help make it relatively affordable.
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When designer Bruce Kilgore first sketched the AF1 in 1982, he borrowed from Nike's Approach hiking boot—lowering the heel for better movement and creating a basketball icon that's quietly rooted in trail performance. Four decades later, that connection comes full circle. The AF1 GTX Vibram swaps courtside polish for alpine grit, pairing a waterproof GORE-TEX leather upper with a rugged Vibram outsole engineered to grip slick streets like a rock face. It's the AF1 reimagined for rain, sleet, and snow—because not every journey happens indoors.
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David Beckham and Kevin Hart are together again. In Hart's continued quest to be like Beckham, the comedian somewhat kidnaps the soccer star for a cross-country road trip to Vegas for a new musical. As you can imagine, nothing goes as planned and the pair end up stranded somewhere between here and Mexico.
Putting humans on the surface of Mars is becoming a real mission and not just so much talk. Astronauts are training, and NASA wants to see the mission launch in the 2030s. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has thrown his hat in the ring, with this video demonstrating how the SpaceX system to deliver astronauts to the surface of the Red Planet might work.