The secret to a well-stocked pantry is simple: It has to work for your specific life. If you’re someone who throws together a meal in 20 minutes on most nights, the ingredients in your pantry should help you accomplish that. And if you enjoy spending an hour cooking after work or on weekends to help you relax, the same rule applies. A pantry needs to fit your life, whatever form that life takes and no matter what comes down the road....
As much as one-fifth of the Earth’s surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a unique array of animals into their realm. Savannas and Grasslands: What’s the difference? Both are dominated by grass and few trees as well as hooved animals that can run fast from predators, so what’s the difference between a grassland and a savanna?...
Director James Gunn blasted back onto the comic book movie scene in 2021 with his work on the reboot/sequel The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. Amongst A-list newcomers like John Cena’s Peacemaker and Idris Elba’s Bloodsport, this unique R-rated romp also brought back one of DC’s biggest fan favorites in Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. Amongst the changing landscape for Warner Bros’ DC slate, Robbie boasts one of the longest current runs within the DC Extended Universe as the wild and psychotic Dr....
The Young Avengers have been teased in the MCU for quite some time. Phase 4 brought a range of new faces to the superhero franchise, from Ms. Marvel and Kid Loki to Wiccan & Speed; all of them have been poised as the potential next generation of the MCU.As more of the young team has come to the forefront, so have expectations that the MCU would bring all these characters together....
The first episode of Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight has been a big hit with fans, specifically including praise for Oscar Isaac’s performance as the timid and sympathetic Steven Grant. But, as fans quickly became attached to the meek gift shop employee, it made it all the worse for them to see Khonshu disparage the confused man repeatedly. Khonshu, voiced by Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, debuted in Moon Knight’s first episode, berating Grant for interrupting Marc Spector’s vital mission....
A new international trailer for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania featured archival footage from the biggest Marvel Studios to date, Avengers: Endgame. Paul Rudd’s pint-sized Avenger is back for this third solo adventure of the MCU in just a matter of weeks, in what has been described as “a hard left turn” for the Ant-Man franchise. Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp were fairly small (pun totally intended) comedies when compared to the Mutliversal fare of other Marvel Studios blockbusters....
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has been teased as the MCU’s first horror flick, and as such, fans can look forward to plenty of scares and casualties. Marvel Studios remains tight-lipped as to who or what will be terrorizing Benedict Cumberbatch’s magical Avenger this time around, but all signs are pointing towards Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch. Having held hundreds of civilians hostage in her own sitcom reality in WandaVision, allowing her to live out her fantasy family life, Wanda Maximoff is sitting dangerously on the edge between hero and villain....
As The Flash Season 9 piles up with guest stars, another Arrowverse veteran joined the list. The Flash’s final season will end the Arrowverse as fans know it, but set photos and official marketing for The CW series revealed that surprises are in the cards. Several Arrowverse favorites, such as Stephen Amell (Green Arrow) and Javicia Leslie (Batwoman), have been confirmed to make comebacks, but there are still some notable characters that have yet to be spotted on set, like Carlos Valdes’ Cisco Ramon....
Iceland is a land of volcanoes. Nowhere is this more evident than on the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), an archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. Here, centuries of volcanic eruptions formed sea cliffs that appear almost fairy-tale-like. Among these eye-catching formations, one stands out: A portion of the volcano-formed coast on Heimaey (which means “Home Island”) looks almost exactly like the head of a large elephant sticking its trunk in the water....
One year into a global pandemic, it’s safe to say moviegoers have grown used to seeing their most anticipated films delayed by weeks, months, or years. Arguably, no film franchise has been hit harder by this than the MCU. The pandemic has forced multiple readjustments of the franchise’s entire theatrical and Disney+ slate. 2021 is set to be the busiest year yet for the Marvel universe with four theatrical films and four more Disney+ series still to come after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier concludes next month....
Martin Holladay describes a pretty good house and it looks pretty familiar. This TreeHugger is a big fan of the Passive House or Passivhaus standard, which puts a hard limit on energy consumption and air leakage. I like it because it is all about reducing demand for energy, rather than playing with supply with things like solar panels or smart tech. The result is a simple, dumb house, even if getting there is a bit complicated....
Over at BuildingGreen, Alex Wilson describes his new home, and his choice of an electric induction cooktop. Over at the Alter residence, we cook with gas. The idea of using electricity seemed silly; burning coal or natural gas to make heat to boil water to spin a turbine to generate electricity to push down a wire to… make heat? This has got to be a losing proposition. And it is; natural gas emits 117 pounds of CO2 to make a million BTUs of heat, while the US national average for generating electricity is 401....
Nearly everyone has had some sort of run-in. It might have happened near a lake, at a farm or even your front yard. You see a regal goose and for some reason or another it comes at you, honking with wings spread wide. Why was that goose so aggressive, and what did you do to make it so mad? Canada geese have a reputation for being mean. They are extremely adaptable, finding food and other resources in urban areas, which is where they nest, raise their young, feed and live....
Having kick-started his comic book movie career with Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man trilogy, director Sam Raimi will soon return to the genre with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this summer. After directing two legendary wall-crawler outings in the early 2000s, his third outing was plagued by studio interference from Sony, leading to a critical flop and Raimi’s departure from the planned fourth installment. ADVERTISEMENT Just a few months before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness finally releases, Raimi has revealed his dream comic book projects and hinted a Spider-Man return could be on his horizon....
In my office sits an archaic (by most standards) desktop computer. It’s more than a decade old and is often slow and fussy. My son is a computer engineering student, so that old machine frustrates him. He always urges me to get something newer and faster, shinier and less cranky, but I resist. That was until yesterday, when my computer made a series of ominous clicking noises — and then died....
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) John von Neumann (1903-1957) Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) Math. It’s one of those things that most people either love or hate. Those who fall on the hate side of things might still have nightmares of showing up for a high school math test unprepared, even years after graduation. Math is, by nature, an abstract subject, and it can be hard to wrap your head around it if you don’t have a good teacher to guide you....
Celebrity power couple Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady’s chateau-inspired hovel in L.A.’s chichi Brentwood section managed to raise a few eyebrows earlier this year not just because of its elephantine size — a staggering 22,000 square feet — but also that Bundchen, a noted environmentalist, reportedly planned to outfit it with as many eco-friendly bells and whistles as possible including solar panels, rainwater recycling systems and energy-efficient lighting and appliances. This, of course, led to the inevitable question: Can a $20 million palace with eight bedrooms and a six-car garage still be considered “green?...
The Batman is set to give fans a fresh new take on DC’s Dark Knight, with Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne leading the way as Gotham’s new protector. The upcoming DCEU film is directed by Matt Reeves, and it follows Bruce’s story in his second year as the Caped Crusader. Joining Pattinson in the movie is a stellar cast that includes Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin, and Paul Dano as the Riddler....
Moving out of the chaos of the Infinity Saga’s climactic installments, Phase 4 is packed with much of the same insanity, with game-changing stories like Spider-Man: No Way Home, Loki, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Although as many old faces depart the MCU, the latest projects have also introduced audiences to some new faces, including Kate Bishop, Shang-Chi, and, later this month, Moon Knight. Moon Knight will mark the MCU’s first venture into the supernatural with Egyptian gods and mystical creatures....
Marvel Studios expanded its horizons thanks to its efforts on Disney+ in 2021 and 2022, adding to the MCU’s already expansive journey with streaming series like WandaVision and Loki. Last year, these efforts brought the MCU its first critical awards at the TV level with three wins at the 2022 Emmys for WandaVision. With so many unique properties coming to Disney+ from Marvel Studios, the team decided that there will be some that only last for one season rather than continuing over the next few years....
