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He wants to teach you to grow the most delicious, nutritious vegetables you can possibly imagine. Eddy is a gardener unlike any other you’ve met. Is there a bowl of strawberries from your childhood that you still reminisce about? A decadent tomato salad you once enjoyed while traveling in the Mediterranean? If you can describe those dreamy vegetal encounters to Eddy, he will help you recreate them at home. Eddy is a cute little robot, less than one foot high, made of blue and black plastic....

For starters, skip the individual bags of compost and the plastic seedling pots. Gardening is one of those soul-affirming, Earth-friendly activities that we’re big fans of at TreeHugger. Growing your own food (and flowers) is the most effective way to shorten the path from field to table, and allows you to control all of the inputs, from the kinds of seeds you plant, to the soil quality, to the type of fertilizer and compost, to the presence of plastic....

Anticipation is high for Lady Gaga’s DCU debut as Harley Quinn, but a new update from Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips confirmed that fans will need to wait slightly longer for the actress’ first look on set.Joker’s team surprised everyone when reports first started to emerge that Lady Gaga was in early talks for Harleen Quinzel’s role in the upcoming sequel. Eventually, Joker 2’s teaser confirmed the A Star is Born actress’ involvement, boosting the hype for the Joaquin Phoenix-led sequel....

Thanks to the persistence of fans since 2017, Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League will be releasing in an episodic format on HBO Max sometime in mid-2021. Since it was officially announced, this new cut of Justice League and its upcoming re-release has been referred to as Zack Snyder’s Justice League, even during DC FanDome a couple weeks ago and in its premiere trailer. However, it seems like this cut may have received a name change in the meantime that could disappoint hardcore Zack Snyder fans....

Spider-Man: No Way Home featured the surprising and memorable comebacks of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s respective web-slingers, teaming up with Tom Holland’s web-crawler to cure their villains and bring them home. Maguire and Garfield’s return earned an overwhelmingly positive reception from fans and critics, ultimately leading to the threequel becoming the third highest-grossing film at the domestic box office. While fans are eagerly anticipating No Way Home’s big screen return this September (which is confirmed to be filled with extended scenes), a new wave of collectibles has emerged online to keep them busy....

Soon, Star Wars will come back into the spotlight when Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi hits Disney+, bringing the grizzled ex-Jedi Master into prominence. Along with McGregor and an A-list cast on-screen, the series boasts some of the top filmmakers and experts from the industry working on the story, possibly none bigger than original composer John Williams. On his almost unrivaled resume, Williams has credits in all nine movies from the Skywalker Saga, delivering some of the most iconic musical themes in film history....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is well underway thanks to its official arrival on Disney+, which continues with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The debut episode became the most watched original pilot entry of any show in the streaming network’s short history, and the hype only continues to build with two thirds of the story left to tell. While the series is rightfully focused on Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes, each 50-minute outing has spent some time on important supporting cast members in their heroes’ journeys....

Marvel Studios is less than a month away from its second Disney+ show of the year in Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel, bringing one of the MCU’s most anticipated new heroes into the story. This six-episode MCU outing will provide a look into the everyday life of a high school kid in this franchise while also laying the foundation for a more cosmic adventure to come later in Phase 4. The first trailer for Ms....

Warner Bros.’s Shazam! film was a pleasant surprise to many. The character was pretty obscure, and much like what Marvel Studios did with Guardians of the Galaxy, he was pulled out into the spotlight, becoming a fan favorite. Another strong part of the film was Mark Strong’s Dr. Sivana, whose summoning of the Deadly Sins didn’t do any favors for Billy Batson in his first adventure. At the end of the film, though, he was subdued, and it doesn’t look like he will make his return in the sequel....

Months ago, Collider confirmed from J. K. Simmons that there is “one more JJJ appearance in the can” and that “from what I’m [Simmons] hearing there’s a plan for yet another.” Since Simmons said that there was already one “in the can,” this makes it very likely that his next appearance will be in either Morbius or Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Sony seems intent on keeping the connection between their spin-off movies and the MCU, an example being The Vulture cameo at the end of the Morbius trailer....

With about six months before Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s theatrical debut, it has been revealed one past Spider-Man will not return for the Multiversal sequel. The upcoming Spider-Verse sequel is one of the most anticipated films of the year, as moviegoers get to follow protagonist, Miles Morales, in his next steps of becoming a full-blown superhero. The film has been called “super ambitious” with a bevy of Spidey Variants already having been showcased in its promotional materials....

Lucasfilm and Disney will return to Jedi-centric storytelling at the end of Spring 2022 with Ewan McGregor’s currently limited Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The former Jedi Master will take on his next challenges as he lives out his self-imposed exile on Tatooine, coming about a decade after his emotional battle with Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith.Part of Obi-Wan’s mission will have him watching over the young Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, making sure the iconic twins stay out of the trouble that they’ll inevitably encounter....

For everything we take from the Earth, there is a byproduct or consequence. Perhaps pollution is a symptom of nature’s imbalance. Some people reap from the Earth, but countless others become sick, displaced or harmed due to the resulting pollution — affecting wildlife and more. On the off chance that a guilty conscience is an unknown symptom of overexploitation, here’s a list of the 10 worst forms of pollution and their effects on humans....

The Falcon and the Winter Solider is less than a month away from its premiere on Disney+, and marketing for the series is beginning to ramp up. The show will focus on Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes as they navigate life after fighting alongside Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and returning from their five-year disappearance as part of the infamous Blip covered in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame....

In a bid to reduce TP’s environmental impact, the team of toilet crusaders behind the Tushy bidet attachment have rolled out an unbleached bamboo alternative. Tushy, the company that thinks you should treat your butt like your face, believes that toilet paper is wiping away the environment, and has just launched an alternative that it calls a “sustainable poo-solution to Big Toilet Paper consumption.” According to Tushy, 15 million trees and 67 billion gallons of “sh*tty chemicals” (used to bleach the TP) are used for toilet paper each year, and TP production accounts for 15% of deforestation, so switching to a bidet instead of dry toilet paper is a more ecologically sound choice....

The Well Standard has all the buzz these days, but are we taking our eyes off the ball? It’s now pretty much official; wellness is the new green. Tony Whitehead of WSP tells us that the wellness industry was worth US$ 3.7 trillion in 2015, including “‘wellness lifestyle real estate’ worth US$118.6bn, and a US$43.3bn workplace wellness market.” Wellness looks very much like the next big thing in building design — the new “green”… For decades, environmental considerations have been to the fore in architectural and engineering thinking, the aim being to create highly efficient buildings that used as little energy and water as possible....

How do you know if a primate is a monkey or an ape? “Quit monkeying around.” “She’s just aping his movements.” “He made a monkey out of me.” There are so many ways in which monkeys and apes have made their way into our language that when it comes to choosing the right term to describe a certain primate, it’s no wonder we often select the wrong term, using “ape” when we’re pointing at a monkey or “monkey” when we’re pointing at an ape....

There’s something about moose-kind that leaves many of us with the impression that they are, well, kind. Maybe it’s that wide, dopey face. Or the fact that a moose shares similar dimensions to a lovable donkey — albeit more staggering dimensions. Or maybe it’s the influence of Bullwinkle, the sweetly slow-witted moose from the 1960s cartoon. But as Alaskans and many Canadians have painfully come to understand, a moose in the wild should be accorded a very wide berth....

Peeling a banana doesn’t require the nimblest of fingers. It’s basically Nature’s version of a twist-off bottle cap. Anyone with any kind of digits can get to the tasty slip of sweetness inside. But what if even that was too much of a bother? Why not just chomp right through the skin and be done with it? Well, some experts suggest you can do just that. As Australian dietitian Susie Burrell notes on her blog, eating the whole banana may go a long towards reducing food waste and upping your nutritional intake....

Anthony Mackie got quite the upgrade this past year during his first Disney+ show. While the series started with the hero going by the moniker of Falcon, but the time the finale’s credits rolled, he was that no longer—instead, he finally accepted what Steve Rogers offered up to him in Avengers: Endgame: the mantle of Captain America.It’s quite the promotion, especially since the character first made his debut all the way back in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier....