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Every week, The Mandalorian Season 2 raises the stakes for Mando and Grogu even more, and the latest episode took it up a notch. Directed by Robert Rodriguez, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy” saw the much-awaited comeback of Boba Fett, but the episode also featured the debut of Moff Gideon’s Dark Troopers. As expected, the latter’s debut didn’t bode well for Mando, since it ultimately led to the capture of Grogu. Despite that, “Chapter 14" delivered one of the show’s exciting team-ups, with both Mando and Boba Fett working together to fight off a platoon of Stormtroopers in Tython....

It’s mesmerizing to watch. Peach-faced lovebirds will carefully and precisely tear off perfect strips of paper with their beaks and gently tuck them into their tail feathers. It looks as if they’re adding to their plumage with these paper extensions for their tail feathers. But it turns out there’s no vanity in this fascinating avian ritual. Why do lovebirds make paper tails? It may look good, but it’s all about housekeeping; the birds are tucking the paper away for safekeeping so they can use it later as material to build a nest....

This easy recipe makes a plant-based pumpkin pudding that is rich, creamy, healthy, and delicious. First of all, the secret ingredient in this sublime dessert isn’t actually pumpkin; it’s butternut squash. But since canned pumpkin is often actually butternut squash, I’m going with “pumpkin” here. Secondly, this isn’t exactly pudding, but it’s not exactly mousse either. It tastes kind of like the deliciously confused child of pudding, mousse, and pumpkin pie – but since pudmoupie doesn’t sound so great, I am sticking with “pudding....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga only featured five levels for each of the nine galactic blockbusters it adapts. Given the roughly two-hour runtime of each film in the saga, that leaves limitations on how faithfully the movies can be adapted and means some scenes may sadly have to be left to cinematics - or be omitted altogether.Previous LEGO Star Wars games have been heavily criticized for having dull and repetitive space battles....

James Cameron is a juggernaut in the film industry. Two of the highest-grossing movies of all time, Titanic and Avatar, belong to him. Now, he’s set to finally release a sequel, The Way of Water, to his hit 2009 film, which is set to release in December.Before he ever touched those hugely successful films, the director almost directed a Spider-Man film before Sam Raimi did in the early 2000s. He even had a treatment written out, which would have included Sandman and Electro as villains....

The DC Extended Universe is in the midst of a major resurgence starting in just about six weeks with their new slate of films. Christmas Day 2020 will bring the debut of Wonder Woman 1984 both in theaters and on HBO Max, and the next couple of years will feature debuts for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and much more to follow. Now that releases for this group of movies are finally on the horizon, the time has come to go hard on promotion to remind fans that these new movies are coming in the near future....

Darth Vader turned out to be one of the most prominent characters in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+. Portrayed by Hayden Christensen, the character served as the main antagonist and stood opposite his former master, Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. After the announcement that the character would be included in the project and Christensen would be making his return to Star Wars, many fans wondered how exactly he would be used....

Grizzly bears have roamed North America for tens of thousands of years, ever since their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia. They once ranged as far as Michigan and Mexico, and up to 100,000 existed when Europeans first arrived. That soon changed, however, as intensive shooting, trapping and habitat loss eliminated the bears from most of their habitats in the contiguous United States. By the 20th century, just a few U....

The main focus of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is introducing new heroes and villains into the franchise’s interconnected storytelling, but an integral part of the plan is to still catch up with some key players from the Infinity Saga. One of the characters who will return in this new chapter is Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton, and his story will be expanded in a big way in his own Disney+ series, Hawkeye....

The number of zero-waste grocery stores in the U.S. and throughout the world is increasing. These stores keep packaging for food to the minimum, selling foods out of bulk bins, foregoing plastic wrap around fresh foods, and encouraging shoppers to bring reusable containers and bags to put their purchases in. Nearly 25 percent of the waste in U.S. landfills comes from food products, according to Smithsonian. Much of that waste is created because we prefer the convenience of plastic bags at our fingertips for things such as produce instead of bringing reusable bags or containers....

Smoothie recipes, like recipes in general, are usually very specific about ingredients. It can be frustrating to find a recipe that you want to make, only to realize you’re missing one ingredient. If that happens in the morning when you’re trying to make quick, healthy smoothie to get yourself out the door in a hurry, it can be especially frustrating. Wouldn’t it be easier if you didn’t have to have a recipe to make a smoothie?...

Transportation has a much bigger impact on urban design than we think. On Tuesday afternoons in winter I teach sustainable design at Ryerson School of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. We have covered many of these themes on TreeHugger, but I recently turned a lecture into a post, which turned out to be popular here. It also was a great dress rehearsal for me, so I am going to do this again with my upcoming lecture on Transportation....

Editor’s note: The title of this article has been altered to reflect James Gunn’s response to this news. James Gunn has become a sought-after titan of the comic book film industry. Since he managed to turn the previously unheard-of Guardians of the Galaxy into household names, the director was quickly swept up by DC films to take on a film of his choice during the period in which he was fired from Marvel....

Jonathan Majors shared new insight into just how dangerous his Kang the Conqueror will be in the MCU.Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will introduce the Multiverse Saga’s ultimate big bad in Kang, providing the first look at the prime version of the Multiversal Marvel villain. This will set up Majors’ character to be an essential part of the MCU story over the next few years, eventually facing the Avengers in their first team-up movie since the end of the Infinity Saga....

Episode 5 of Loki, titled “Journey Into Mystery,” delivered quite the rollercoaster ride of a story with the God of Mischief stuck in The Void and having to work with multiple Variants of himself that survived in other realities. Through all of this, Tom Hiddleston’s lead is set to face challenges he’s never seen before alongside Owen Wilson’s Mobius and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie, and it’s going to be thrilling to find out exactly what he’s up against....

While Marvel Studios continues to expand mightily on its cinematic universe with blockbusters like Eternals, Sony Pictures is hard at work expanding on its own set of superhero films as well. The studio’s next outing will be its team-up effort with Marvel for Spider-Man: No Way Home in December, although non-MCU movies are finding success as well for Sony. Most recently, Tom Hardy’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage made headlines with one of the highest-grossing opening weekends of any movie in the pandemic era....

Ahh, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the movie that was essentially willed into existence by thousands of DC fans. For the uninitiated, Snyder shot almost all the superhero team-up in 2016 until a personal tragedy forced him to step away from the project. Warner Bros. filled the director’s chair with Joss Whedon and the finished product, after extensive reshoots, didn’t exactly live up to expectations. Jump forward a few years and Snyder got to step in and finish his version....

Thor: Love and Thunder made its way onto Disney+ after a rollercoaster run in theaters, causing a huge divide amongst Marvel fans, particularly over its use of CGI. Director Taika Waititi has even addressed some of the more controversial moments, which started early in the movie with the introduction of a new character.This came with Kieron L. Dyer’s MCU debut as Axl, Heimdall’s never-before-seen son, as he used his newfound powers to contact Thor once Gorr the God Butcher kidnapped the children of Asgard....

Mark Muir, USDA/Public Domain In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah (pictured above) there is a colony of quaking aspen that is an estimated 80,000 years old, though no individual tree currently alive is anywhere near that age. Even the oldest non-clonal trees in the world, at some 4000+ years of age, don’t approach the age of the root system of this organism, known as Pando, or the Trembling Giant....

The universe may seem like an impossibly massive void, speckled only by stars, planets and the occasional cigar-shaped object. But the truth is, the cosmos is rich with energy and elements. We just can’t process them. In fact, for all of humanity’s probings into the cosmos — wielding everything from the Hubble Space Telescope to the 64-dish array of radio telescopes known as MeerKAT — we still can’t get a fix on some of its most common elements....