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Although climbing mountains, documenting exotic lands and traversing some of Mother Nature’s most extreme landscapes might not be considered gender-exclusive activities today, they were once very much the endeavors of men only. Well, men and a select handful of tenacious women who saw beyond their prescribed societal roles and just went out and did it. We’ve rounded up several notable female adventurers of the 19th and early 20th centuries who blazed the trail, sometimes literally, for their modern counterparts....

A new plot synopsis has uncovered some critical details about what Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has in store for one fan-favorite member.James Gunn recently confirmed that besides Star-Lord, Rocket the Racoon is the secret hero of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. This is certainly not surprising, as Gunn has shared that he has a “special closeness to the character” and felt that he had to finish Rocket’s story before the director officially leaves the MCU....

After many years of development, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is finally getting the chance to suit up as a supervillain in Black Adam, which has is nearing the end of production. Though Johnson’s tenure in the DCEU is just getting started, Black Adam producer Dany Garcia revealed that Johnson and crew “want to do many” sequels. Not only will the film bring the Shazam villain to the big screen for the first time, but it will also introduce a multitude of various superheroes to the DCEU....

Kaley Cuoco’s Harley Quinn is finally getting ready to start back up in only a few weeks. The HBO Max adult animated series follows the iconic Batman villain as she sets off on her own adventures after leaving her abusive and downright violent ex, the Joker. Things seem much better for her now, seeing as she’s now happily married to Poison Ivy. It’s been two years since a new installment of the show has aired, but thankfully, the drought is coming to an end....

The new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 was just released during the Super Bowl, and fans are wondering how Gamora returned after her death in Avengers: Infinity War? There are a few reasons. Zoe Saldana’s Gamora was featured in several shots of Marvel Studios’ tear-jerker of a trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Skilled assassin and daughter of Thanos, Gamora was a key member of the Guardians family - and the love interest of Peter Quill - prior to Thanos sacrificing her for the soul stone....

Tom Hiddleston’s Loki is one of the MCU’s breakout characters, and it’s only fitting that the anti-hero will return in his own Disney+ series, but with an added twist. Directed by Kate Herron, the show will follow an alternate version of the character that was first introduced in the Time Heist during 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. In that film, this Loki variant escaped his captors by taking the Tesseract, but recent trailers revealed that his disappearing act was foiled by the Timekeepers who are also known as the Time Variance Authority....

It’s the only way to deal with reduced capacity in the underground, and is a great example for other cities. In North America, bikes are seen as recreation rather than transportation; that’s why some cities like New York and Toronto have to be dragged kicking and screaming into providing room for them. But both of these cities are dependent on subways to move commuters and are faced with a serious problem of reduced capacity....

After having his name pop up in rumors about who will play the next James Bond, this Marvel star finally shared his reaction to the idea of suiting up as 007. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (who played Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron) is just one of many names who have potentially been attached to take up the mantle of the world’s most famous on-screen secret agent. After Daniel Craig’s take on the character went out with a bang in No Time to Die, MGM and the James Bond rights shepherds, the Broccoli family, have been (pun intended) on a mission to find their next Bond....

Marvel Studios has had a consistent presence at San Diego Comic-Con in recent years, but factors such as the global pandemic derailed the studio’s plans to once again showcase a Hall H extravaganza. Despite that, Marvel still found ways to announce significant developments and new projects by showcasing them on 2020’s Disney Investor Day and 2021’s Disney+ Day, both of which are virtual events. During the studio’s last appearance at SDCC in 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige made a splash by showcasing their Phase 4 slate, revealing projects such as WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

Even considering how many controversial superhero movies have made their way into the public in recent memory, almost none have incited the same level of anger and fury from fans as Sony Pictures’ Morbius. After more than half a dozen delays to its release due to the pandemic, Jared Leto’s Spider-Man spin-off movie arrived in theaters, giving fans an average 2005 movie nearly two decades too late. While Morbius earned some of the worst reviews of any superhero movie in history, along with its embarrassing showing at the box office, it’s quickly became a cult sensation due to fan discourse on social media....

There are very good reasons for using them, especially in smaller spaces. When visiting Europe, it seems that almost every toilet you see is an in-wall style with two buttons on the wall and a wall-hung toilet bowl. It’s essentially the standard; I asked Ben Adam-Smith why he put one in his Passivhaus and that’s what he said: It’s standard, everybody does it. When I divided my house into two units, I didn’t put a bathroom on the third floor at the time, and recently decided to add one....

With the recent release of the highly-slept-on Star Wars: Visions, things for the galaxy far, far away are looking as bright as ever. Yoda would chastise the premise of looking to the future and horizon, but it’s difficult not to be thinking forward about what’s to come for Star Wars over the next year and beyond. Following a dry spell after the conclusion of The Bad Batch’s first season, the anime anthology Visions made its debut on Disney+ and served a pleasant surprise for all fans — so much so that there’s already a desire for more content with the characters and scenarios introduced....

The return of Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is just around the corner, with his new series set to hit Disney+ in mere hours. However, that’s only the beginning of what fans will be getting into when it comes to the galaxy far, far away. After the return of everyone’s favorite Jedi Knight, audiences will then be able to re-emerge themselves into the birthplace of the Rebellion, thanks to Andor. The show stars Diego Luna as Andor Cassian, who first appeared in the previous Star Wars film Rogue One....

The first generation of Star Wars fans seldom fails to let the younger groups know how good they have it. Groans about content droughts are met with the usual “back in the day, we had to wait three years for a new movie - and that was all we had.” It’s a tale as old as the ‘walking to school in a pile of snow uphill in January’ line that every kid has gotten....

If you’re looking to make some space on your shelves and get rid of old books you’ll never crack open again, there’s a great website that makes donating them even easier than dropping them off at the library. Better World Books will send you a shipping label so you can mail them books to be resold on their site. They then donate proceeds to schools, libraries and literacy programs. Any books that can’t be sold are donated or recycled....

Maybe you like a little festive pine scent in winter. Or a calming vanilla smell helps you relax after a hectic day. Perhaps it’s just what you use when a kitchen mishap or the wet-dog stink needs disguising. But you may want to think twice before lighting your next candle. Some scented candles could be as harmful — maybe even worse — than smoking a cigarette. That’s according to Andrew Sledd, M....

Concept art for 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder shows off an unused scene featuring the Marvel comics villain Galactus (yes, you read that right).The fourth installment in the MCU’s Thor franchise gave fans many comic-accurate depictions of characters, stories, and moments, from The Mighty Thor battling both cosmic villains and cancer to Hercules’ introduction into the MCU.In fact, the many cosmic and out-there moments in the film were only the ones that made the cut, with many ideas being scrapped early in production....

Looking back, it’s pretty incredible to think that Marvel Studios’ entire Multiverse Saga started on Disney+ with WandaVision in January 2021. This series revisited the relationship between the Scarlet Witch and Vision, giving them a sitcom-inspired love story that ended with Wanda Maximoff unveiling just a taste of her full powers in Westview.Unlike most of its Disney+ counterparts, WandaVision was only planned to run for one season on the streaming service, which now tracks considering that Wanda met her apparent end in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

While Spider-Man: No Way Home had an impressive theatrical run last year, Sony Pictures confirmed that it will give fans another chance to relive the game-changing movie event by releasing an extended cut this September. No Way Home’s upcoming re-release is labeled as the “More Fun Stuff Version,” with the studio unveiling that it will have 11 minutes of additional scenes. Despite the delays in ticket sales, the hype surrounding No Way Home’s extended cut has been sky-high....

One of the toughest decisions in green building is the choice of insulation. Each type has its own set of virtues and problems. Last summer I wrote an article to try and address this confusion. I didn’t even mention rock wool, and have pretty much always sort of lumped it together with fiberglass. Not so; architect Greg Lavardera claims that it is very different, and if " you think that Mineral Wool batts are similar enough to Fiberglass batts that you already know what you need to know about it, then you are a fool....