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While the DC Extended Universe is still a few months away from restarting its story, Warner Bros. is currently reaping the benefits from Matt Reeves’ The Batman in theaters. Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader saw himself facing Gotham’s worst criminals all at the same time, most prominently featuring Paul Dano’s take on the Riddler. The Batman is certainly making waves based on its theatrical release alone, having already earned the biggest opening weekend for any non-Disney movie in almost three years at the box office....

In the Netherlands, first time buyers can buy an architect-designed flatpack home for under US$150,000, on lots sold by the Municipality. According to the Guardian, I build affordable in Nijmegen/Promo imageElsbeth Ronner of LRVH architects explains: © Avi Friedman Reading the Guardian and looking at the site, I couldn’t help but think that I had seen this before. In fact, it is pretty much the same idea as the Grow Home, developed in Montreal in the early 1990s by Avi Friedman and Witold Rybczynski at McGill University....

You’ve probably heard of hydroponic gardening and vermicomposting, but have you ever heard of the two combined in one ultra-efficient garden? It turns out, wriggly red worms don’t flourish only in soil and food scraps — they can give a boost to plants growing in water, as well. Gardener Jim Joyner developed an “aqua-vermiculture” system in which plants and worms thrive together in a gravel bed that’s routinely flooded with water and drained, creating a mini ecosystem and fertilizer factory....

Once a staple of the early American diet (with the average person consuming 35 gallons per year), hard cider hit hard times with the advent of Prohibition in 1920. Cider apple orchards across the United States were either abandoned, chopped down by axe-welding FBI agents, or replaced with more popular eating apples, such as the ubiquitous Red Delicious. Today, hard cider is experiencing a renaissance, with more than 25 million consumers in 2017 and industry growth second to none among alcoholic beverages sold in the U....

Smiles are contagious. And no, that’s not just what mom tells you as she carts you off to school, assuring you that you’ll make plenty of friends. Just keep smiling. In fact, scientists have long noted that animals reflect each other’s expressions — smiles, frowns and everything in between — as an essential means of communication. Rhesus macaques, for instance, can intuit each other’s mental states based on their expressions — and, more importantly, they can mirror them....

In recent years, Marvel has proactively taken bigger steps to adapt its various IPs into quality blockbuster level games; not just the lackluster mobile games they’ve been known for. Some of these projects blossom into critical hits like Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man, while others devolve into disappointing messes like Square Enix’s Avengers. Another one of its recent games, and one of the best from a critical standpoint, is Guardians of the Galaxy....

Due to complicated movie rights, there are many iconic Marvel characters that fans have been waiting to see enter the MCU for years. The X-Men and Fantastic Four are the two superhero teams that will come to mind for most, but for years, Marvel Studios has been missing one of its most infamous antagonists: Doctor Doom.Most famously being associated with the Fantastic Four, Victor Von Doom has only ever really been portrayed on screens as a villain of Marvel’s First Family....

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network. Years ago the demographer David Foot wrote “Boom, Bust and Echo,” in which he claimed that “demographics explains two-thirds of everything — whether the subject is business planning, marketing, human resources, career planning, corporate organization, the stock market, housing, education, health, recreation, leisure, and social and global trends.” One of the lessons in that book was to follow the baby boomers, the oldest of whom are now 72 and the youngest 58....

As we attempt to become a healthier nation, there are opposite factions at work. One group works to manipulate food to become closer to their own ideas of what is healthy – whether it is by changing the genetic material in a seed or learning new ways to “refine” foods that were once toxic. Another group attempts to go back to the way nature made food, to turn back the clocks and eat closer to what our ancestors did....

Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel is set to return in her own sequel after her 2019 solo film, but this time around, the lead hero will have more allies than usual. The movie, titled The Marvels, will unite Carol Danvers with new and old heroes, namely Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury. The exact plot details of The Marvels are still being kept under wraps, but it is widely expected that it will be a cosmic adventure that will also give Kamala and Monica their own chance to shine....

The small screen branch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently on an impressive run, as evidenced by the success of both WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The long-form storytelling approach provided the franchise a unique opportunity to explore the film’s side characters in a huge way, while also giving these shows a chance to introduce new characters that will make an impact on the big screen offerings down the line....

Adam Driver - the actor behind Kylo Ren from Star Wars’ sequel trilogy - may be a front-runner to play the MCU’s new Reed Richards in Fantastic Four.Development has been heating up on Fantastic Four, with WandaVision’s Matt Shakman confirmed to direct while Disaster Wedding’s Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer pen the script. With production expected to begin later this year or early next year ahead of the February 2025 release, fan casts are at an all-time high....

Planting the wrong tree in the wrong place is a guarantee for future tree removal. Tree removal is, at best, expensive to buy and can be very dangerous if you decide to do it yourself, plus it is back-breaking work. A lot of trouble and anxiety can be avoided by planting the appropriate tree in your yard to start with. Bad Tree Characteristics All trees have good and bad characteristics. It is a rare tree that will satisfy your needs throughout its entire life span....

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is set to release on May 5, 2023, wrapping up a trilogy of films that many MCU fans would never have believed could work. James Gunn, the director of the upcoming installment and the first two movies, was able to take lesser-known characters from within the Marvel franchise and make them household names. Guardians 3 recently wrapped filming and will now go into post-production ahead of its release....

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has posted spoiler-heavy photos from behind the scenes of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. To say that Black Panther 2 is an ambitious film would be an understatement.Not only was Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Marvel Studios looking to continue this successful, and culturally important, franchise without its lead, but Wakanda Forever also had to acknowledge the star and his character’s passing. If that wasn’t difficult enough, the sequel served as the MCU’s final Phase 4 film; and in doing so, set the stage for a number of new characters and future storylines....

Marvel is now on their third Disney+ release with Loki, which has just debuted its second episode. Clearly, fans like it, and it’s hitting all the right notes for critics as well. So much so, that Marvel has yet another project on their hands that is breaking records. There’s a lot to take in for fans watching Loki. Not only is the show introducing an entirely new set of rules for how the universe functions, but it’s also setting the stage for the future of the entire MCU....

MCU newcomer Ke Huy Quan let fans in on an unforgettable experience he had working with Tom Hiddleston on Loki Season 2.Bringing back the entire core cast of Loki Season 1, this next six-episode story is set to pull back the curtains on more of the Multiverse as the God of Mischief tries to hold back the tidal wave of chaos coming to the MCU. And with Hiddleston being one of the franchises’ longest-standing veterans, he remains grateful for the opportunity to keep playing Loki long after first arriving in 2011’s Thor....

Lucasfilm has released its annual Star Wars holiday card, and the image it depicts shows the company breaking canon in a light-hearted manner as the likes of Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Vader interact.The fan-favorite series has had a long relationship with the holidays. Back in 1978, the company released a Star Wars Holiday Special.Sadly, it was so bad that nearly everyone who witnessed it has personality decided to leave it outside of any canon conversations....

Amid the Multiverse shenanigans from Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, the MCU’s Flash Thompson actor Tony Revolori revealed an important tidbit to a key story in the threequel. No Way Home addressed the ramifications of Peter Parker’s secret identity as Spider-Man in a big way during its early moments, one of which sees him rejected from college after applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alongside Ned and MJ....

Ms. Marvel’s six-episode run finally ended on Disney+, and the next step in Kamala Khan’s adventure is her upcoming big screen debut in The Marvels alongside Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel and Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau. Aside from the massive team-up, the exact plot details of the sequel are still being kept under wraps, but it has been confirmed that both Iman Vellani and Parris will have significant roles. Vellani already said that she was surprised to learn that she’s a “main character” in The Marvels instead of a cameo....