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There are many ways to reuse your old egg cartons, but I wanted to focus on the projects that were simple and gave the cartons a chance at a second life before being recycled. Many of these ideas let you use egg cartons instead of buying something for the same purpose. Starting Seeds If you’ve ever saved an egg carton to reuse, it’s probably been as a seed starter. No need to buy plastic seed starters or even the compostable ones, egg cartons are the perfect tool for the job....

Dear Vanessa, My brother recently bought a pellet stove and swears it’s saving him money and heating the entire bottom floor of his house, but he also usually won’t admit a mistake. I’m cold-natured and I can’t put up with a chilly house, but I do want to save money on heating. Can a pellet stove really heat that much of a house and be worth the effort? — Freezing in Frisco, Colo....

The future of the DCEU is currently unclear, but the upcoming DC FanDome should change that. The virtual convention will provide fans a slew of incredible reveals and surprises about the future of the franchise. In addition, the idea of the multiverse has been the major point of discussion among DC fans, and it is expected that all will be revealed during the event. 2022’s The Flash will play a major role in terms of mapping out the next wave of DCEU properties because of its time-travel and multiverse element....

Sitting at the top of the food chain, it’s easy for humans to think we don’t have anything to learn from nature. But after millions of years of trial and error, evolution has come up with some amazing solutions to the problems facing our scientists. Fortunately for us, the burgeoning trend of biomimicry is copying those answers, leading to innovation in robotics, transportation, architecture, and other fields. From ostrich-inspired transportation to a motorcycle helmet with “skin” to a tower based on a flower, here are 13 novel technologies inspired by the natural world....

Ahead of Riri Williams’ solo series Ironheart, Dominque Thorne will first debut her new Iron Man-inspired character in Ryan Coolger’s MCU sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Many fans have been wondering if the Ironheart character will be overly derivative of Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, who just exited the MCU in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame and has at least one more project focused on his legacy in the upcoming Armor Wars movie....

A few months ago, I worked on a small farm for a weekend. I spent one full day digging up potatoes and picking squash. By the end, I had around five buckets full of food, all from just a few rows of plants that couldn’t have spanned more than 20 yards. “You can really grow a lot in a small space,” I remarked to the farmer, hiding that I was one or two more potatoes away from collapsing from exhaustion....

Sure, the reveal of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars were both exciting announcements at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. But, many might argue another project stole their thunder: Daredevil: Born Again. Everyone’s favorite blind vigilante was getting his own show once again; needless to say, fans were ecstatic.To make the situation even better was the added tidbit that the series would be 18 episodes long. That’s potentially over four months of weekly Charlie Cox adventures....

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appears to have seen her final days as part of the DC Universe (DCU) as the franchise looks ahead to an incoming reboot.Gadot has served as one of the pillars of the DCU since first suiting up as Diana Prince in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, bringing Wonder Woman to life on the big screen for the first time. Since then, she’s starred in two Wonder Woman solo movies and both the theatrical and director’s cut of Justice League, although she’s now watching as the franchise goes through some major adjustments under new leadership....

Although Shazam! Fury of the Gods has experienced delays in the past months, Warner Bros. and DC Studios look to boost anticipation for its March 2023 premiere as marketing ramps up for the Shazam-led sequel.Lead star Zachary Levi is set to return alongside the Shazam family in the upcoming sequel as they are set to battle Helen Mirren’s Hespera and Lucy Liu’s Kalypso. The first trailer showed a glimpse of that epic battle alongside references to Ben Affleck’s Batman and Ezra Miller’s Flash....

With the world still in a state of flux due to the pandemic, major movie companies are regularly having to think through their plans for how to bring their biggest movies to the world. While studios like Disney and Warner Bros. have projects in the works that are made specifically for a streaming release, the uneasy state of movie theaters could potentially force the movies being developed for the big screen to debut on streaming, just as Wonder Woman 1984 did....

Many recyclers will not accept telephone books because the fibers used to make the books’ lightweight pages are too short to be reformulated into new paper, reducing their value. In fact, mixing old phonebooks in with other waste paper can even contaminate the batch, hindering the recyclability of the other paper fibers. Nonetheless, phonebook papers are 100 percent recyclable and are used primarily to—you guessed it—make new phonebooks! In fact, most phonebooks distributed today are made from re-fabricated old phonebook pages mixed with some scrap wood to strengthen the fibers for re-use....

The Star Wars community has recently been enraptured by the release of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. However, it isn’t the only project occupying the headlines. There’s been an avalanche of news since Star Wars Celebration kicked off on Thursday, from the first official look at Andor to a new trailer for the Jedi: Fallen Order sequel, Jedi: Survivor. One of the other recent announcements was a brand-new series set within The Mandalorian timeline called Star Wars: Skeleton Crew....

The cosmic branch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been captained by two veteran franchises for over a decade. Both Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt will suit up for at least one more individual outing in July’s Thor: Love and Thunder and next year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but with their futures uncertain, Marvel Studios needs new blood on the space side. Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers is holding down the front for now, but there are plenty of players that remain on the concept boards....

Hulu’s M.O.D.O.K. season 2 receives a disappointing update that might be the final nail in the coffin for Jeph Loeb Marvel’s Television era. While Marvel Studios has a near-stranglehold on all Marvel-related TV shows and movies hitting the public these days, there are still a few projects remaining from the old era of Marvel Television as well. One of those is the wacky stop-motion animated series M.O.D.O.K., whose first season premiered on Hulu last year and brought one of Marvel’s most unusual characters into the limelight....

Most of the last year has been an absolute rollercoaster of a ride for the entertainment industry, specifically for major players like Marvel Studios. With the team’s biggest slate of projects to date set to premiere in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have grown more impatient by the day to see their favorite Marvel heroes back in action on the big screen. Even with Phase 4’s blazing start on Disney+, there has not been an MCU movie released in theaters since July 2019....

After almost a year, the world is finally getting some proper Funko Pops! for Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett.The last chapter of the Star Wars series aired back in early February of this year, yet, Funko collectors have only gotten three figures representing the show.The first two were of Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, with the third, a flocked Krrsantan, being released at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. However, given everyone who shows their face in the seven episodes of the show’s first season, fans felt that there could have been plenty more....

It’s got quality and technology and can go anywhere; this is a concept with legs. Maarten van Soest doesn’t just build campers and caravans (trailers in Europe). He describes his designs: © Tonke All the Tonke custom builds are stunning, but theTonke Fieldsleeper instantly caught my eye. It’s built in a box that sits on a flatbed truck so that you can separate the body of the camper from the truck, dropping it anywhere and leaving it on hydraulic legs....

Of the currently announced slate of Marvel Disney+ series, Loki is one of the weirdest ones out of the line-up. As the series will focus on the Asgardian taken out of the 2012 timeline after The Avengers, this will be the first solo project centering around a villain. Fans have been clamoring for Loki to take the lead in his own solo title for some time now with petitions going back several years having acquired thousands of signatures....

As the primal creator, Nature could be considered the world’s most powerful and influential artist. And standing at the junction of art and nature are environmental artists, who are often balanced on an intermediary edge, searching and synthesizing creative, unimagined new ways to redefine our relationship with nature. Working with a wide range of materials–ranging from the raw, the found, to the discarded, environmental art can be evocative, provocative or sublime, and oftentimes communicates an urgent message....

In an extensive sampling effort, the Environmental Protection Agency, with the help of state and tribal agencies, coordinated water quality assessments for the country’s lakes. They evaluated 43% of the lake surface area or about 17.3 million acres of water. The study concluded that: Fifty-five percent of the study’s water acreage was judged to be of good quality. The other 45% had waters impaired for at least one type of use (for example as drinking water supply, for recreational fishing, swimming, or aquatic life support)....