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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most recent theatrical release, having broken box office records and the internet alike upon its long-awaited debut in December 2021. With nearly two and a half hours of thrilling action from start to finish, fans couldn’t get enough of the threequel as it became the sixth-highest grossing movie in box office history. Now, the time has come for its physical Blu-ray release....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently at a standstill due to the ongoing health crisis, but the chatter surrounding the franchise remains after a plethora of internet-stopping reveals in the past weeks. A huge part of the discussions were centered around the Disney+ shows of the MCU, appearing as a good sign for the future of the monumental franchise. One of the shows that made headlines in the past few weeks is the She-Hulk Disney+ series....

After fielding criticism for the oft-discussed twerking scene in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, a Marvel writer called out an Iron Man scene in rebuttal.She-Hulk faced more than its fair share of criticism during its nine-week run on Disney+, having to deal with backlash for the special effects and some of the plot points that came through on screen. But almost none of those moments had fans coming at Marvel the way that one scene from Episode 3 did, as viewers saw the episode end with She-Hulk twerking in her office alongside real-world rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion....

Ms. Marvel has landed on Disney+, and audiences seem to be enjoying it far more than early discourse would have suggested. Despite some dramatic shifts in the character’s power set and origins, Kamala Khan’s debut project has been a hit amongst both critics and fans alike. While the character will go on to team up with Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel in next year’s The Marvels, Iman Vellani’s show introduced a different ally in the most recent installment....

Fans are now just over a month out from finally seeing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Benedict Cumberbatch-led project is set to take a deep dive into the Multiverse, hopefully fleshing out the concepts first introduced in Loki and then revisited in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Along for the ride is Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch, who may or may not be the cause of the madness. The marketing for the film has showcased how fans should be ready to meet more than one Variant of characters they’ve come to know over the years....

Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight delivered a story from Marvel Studios that explored an incredible look at its leading character’s mental battles alongside the classic action for which the MCU is known. Behind a nuanced and emotional performance from leading actor Oscar Isaac, each scene in Moon Knight provided new levels of thrills and mystery as Marc Spector and his alternate personalities evolved. While this series delivered a unique superhero story that existed largely separately from the greater MCU, the Moon Knight team had plenty of material they had to leave on the table in post-production....

One of Spider-Man: Far From Home’s stand-out aspects was no doubt Jake Gyllenhaal’s villainous Mysterio. He was a man who came in to fill that mentor-sized hole in Peter’s life only to betray him to acquire some nifty weaponized shades. Mysterio has always been a stand-out member of Spider-Man’s rogue gallery in the comics. Quentin Beck was a special effects expert with a flare of theatrics, one who has butted head with the webhead time and time again over many decades....

Funky bugs The treehopper family Membracidae is a wild and wacky bunch, the lesser known cousins of the less-than-appealing cicada. The slow process of evolution has led this family of bugs to split off into more than 3,000 separate species, each blending in with its own environment. Once you can determine what’s a leaf and what’s a bug, a closer look at treehoppers shows that they are a strange group. The most widely varying part of a treehopper is its pronotum (the area between the insect’s head and its body), which grows upward and outward in myriad odd shapes....

After covering the wonderful Tiny Tack House, Commenter Marrena noted: I have twenty-five years of experience with alternative toilets, but have never looked seriously at the bucket and sawdust toilet as a viable alternative. In fact, re-reading Joe Jenkins’ Humanure Handbook after many years, I began to appreciate the logic and sophistication of this solution. (Sami has covered this for years, links at end of this section) Humanure and the Loveable Loo © Human nutrient cycle/ Joseph Jenkins...

Welcome to some of the most bizarre social behavior on Earth. You thought the swinging sixties and those key parties were crazy? You should see what the acorn woodpeckers have going on. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology gives it a prim spin, noting that “Acorn Woodpeckers are very unusual woodpeckers that live in large groups, hoard acorns, and breed cooperatively.” But a senior scientist at The Lab, Walter Koenig, makes it a bit more clear:...

Forget everything you’ve heard about how to clean mushrooms. Mushrooms are glorious. They are packed with miraculous nutrients and are one of the best ways to add texture and umami to meatless dishes. But about that delicately-wiping-with-a-tea-towel to clean them? We need to talk. Common cooking lore has it that mushrooms cannot be subjected to running water because they absorb too much of it. So we break out the mushroom brushes and tea towels and forge ahead in the painstaking task of wiping away each speck of dirt....

Jeff recently asked, “should we ban the penny to help the environment?” As the things pile up in jars all over our house, I wonder why we bother having them at all, and I was curious how bad they could be environmentally . According to Triple Pundit, Mikes Bikes, a bike store chain in California is no longer taking pennies. The store explains: There were 4,010,830,000 pennies made in the United States last year; each one weighs 2....

When this month’s full moon arrives, it will perform an optical illusion that has baffled onlookers since Aristotle. As with many moonrises — but especially full moons — it will look bizarrely large when it’s near the horizon, then seem to shrink as it ascends. This is the “moon illusion,” and it’s all in your head. The moon isn’t changing sizes, and while its distance from Earth does change slightly over time — producing an occasional “supermoon,” which really does appear up to 14% larger than usual — that happens too slowly to yield such a dramatic transformation in one night....

One of the worst kept secrets throughout the world of DC movies right now is the major controversy behind 2017’s Justice League. Even while fans are eagerly awaiting the debut of the Snyder Cut next year, the last six months have flooded news streams with stories of how this team-up movie fell into shambles during production. The most notable name of a filmmaker behind this mayhem seems to be Joss Whedon, who took over directing duties after Zack Snyder’s family tragedy....

Earth’s moon shines brightly in our sky, but it is not the only satellite in our solar system. Experts estimate there are as many as 170 to 180 moons orbiting the eight planets of our section of the galaxy. A moon is defined as a satellite that orbits a planet. Moons are named after Roman and Greek gods and demigods — with colors and mystifying landscapes that match their fanciful namesakes....

Contrary to what real estate agents would like you to believe, having a baby does not automatically mean you need to buy a bigger house. There are plenty of ways to fit a baby into a small space. It just takes some advance planning and a willingness to think outside the box. 1. Ditch the Changing Table Trust me, they’re overrated. A newborn can easily be changed on a bathroom countertop, which gives you convenient access to water....

The first Captain America, Steve Rogers, might be gone from the MCU (for now…), but his impact will never be lost. His legacy lives on not only in the current Captain America, Sam Wilson but also in many of the heroes that defend the MCU. To celebrate the fourth of July and the original Captain America, here are 20 of Steve Rogers’ best quotes from the MCU to help inspire your Independence Day!...

A seagull swiping the sandwich from your hand at the beach is freaky enough; the thought of a bird of prey with a seven-foot wingspan swooping by and grabbing a child is the stuff of nightmares. Like nature-goes-mad horror movies or dinosaurs-come-to-life novels that keep the faint of heart awake at night. The fear of large, predatory animals is clearly deeply ingrained — as well it should be. Which is why the Golden Eagle Snatches Kid video had more than 5 million views in its first 24 hours....

Growing up, the property neighboring me had a young pear tree that served many functions to the neighborhood kids. In the heat of summer it provided us with shade, it acted as our third base during softball games, and it gave us neighborhood fruit that we’d proudly carry in our shirts home to our mothers. On summer evenings the lowest branch, which broke during an attempt to create a swing, held the extension cord and single light bulb that illuminated rowdy night games of Loteria (a card game similar to Bingo) that could make a kid rich....

From chickpea water and pickle juice to pineapple cores and whey, a lot of great food is unceremoniously dumped. So let’s say you have a can or home-cooked pot of chickpeas – what do you do when you’re ready to use them? You drain them, right? Well … STOP RIGHT THERE! (Pardon my volume.) That bean-drenched water is liquid gold that most of us just dump it right out. And it’s just one of the many wonder ingredients that many people don’t recognize as valid....