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We must understand systemic inequalities so we can understand why and how to correct them. From both stories, we see how exclusion is less productive than inclusion. Leaving up barriers to women’s education means missing out on women’s potential contributions. Destroying public facilities out of hatred destroys them for everyone. If the goal is to maximize equality of opportunity for most people in a society, it would serve us to design our world inclusively. But how do we get there from where we are now? How do we…

Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Writer, director and DC Studios co-head James Gunn is inching ever closer to finding his Superman and Lois Lane, as well as a host of other characters who will either dangle or be dangled high in the sky in the upcoming Superman: Legacy. Sources also report efforts to cast Lex Luthor and members of the Authority, a supergroup of antiheroes who don’t feel as strongly about law and order as Supes does. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn screen-tested six potential Clarks and…

James Gunn Calls DCU Superheroes “Larger-Than-Life” While Comparing Them With MCU ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Facebook ) Ever since James Gunn accepted the role of co-CEO at DC Studios, he has been bombarded with questions about the comparison between MCU and DCU. The director has worked in the two biggest rival movie franchises and given out blockbusters. While he is always in the headlines talking about the two film franchises, the celebrated filmmaker recently answered fans’ biggest question, how his DC projects…

Image via Sony When you reach a certain age, you evolve from becoming the person who gets talked about to play superheroes into the person who gets talked about to play their fathers, but it’s a role that Russell Crowe has embraced. The Academy Award winner has been making it his mission to hire as many costumed crimefighters as humanly possible, with his number apparently being one of the first on speed-dial when somebody is required to deliver exposition and possibly make a heroic sacrifice depending on what…

Last year, M.O.D.O.K. showrunners Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum launched Minor Threats, a creator-owned series about a team of b-list supervillains published by Dark Horse. Today the publisher announced that Oswalt and Blum are returning to the world of Minor Threats with a followup 4-issue miniseries, The Alternates. The twist this time however is that the new series will explore ” b-list superheroes who struggle to reclaim their mediocre lives in a support group.” Joining Oswalt and Blum along for the ride as a…

It is no secret that the tide has been slowly turning against the MCU. Critically, Marvel is in a slump, receiving its three lowest-ever Rotten Tomatoes scores in the last three years. Its working practices, too, have come into question, with what feels like the entire VFX industry lining up to give it a kicking.But, no matter how bad things get, at least Marvel could console itself with the knowledge that one group of people would never dare to badmouth it. That’s right, its actors: a group of people who live in such…

In a world where superheroes come to life on the silver screen, it's easy to forget that the actors behind the masks and capes possess talents beyond their on-screen personas. Prepare to be amazed as we delve into the secret vault of hidden talents belonging to your favourite Marvel stars from stunning vocal abilities to mind-bending magic tricks. Superheroes of Marvel Cinematic Universe.(Marvel) Tom Hiddleston - The Master of Illusion:Tom Hiddleston, the charismatic actor behind the infamous Loki, possesses a…

Image: Mattel/NetflixWhen Masters of the Universe: Revelation premiered on Netflix back in 2021, it turned out to be...actually not half bad. Instead of being an easy dip into the nostalgia well like it initially sounded like, the show was a fun, if flawed, return to the canon of the 1983 series that had grown with its audience and taken some interesting swings. And of course, it wasn’t really the end so much as it was a new beginning, which is going to continue with the sequel series, Masters of the Universe:…

When the couples took to the dance floor in Kingston, Jamaica, they had their eyes on quite the prize: flights to England. But one contestant didn’t have a holiday in mind. Shelley Maxwell had secured a place for a master’s in choreography at London’s Trinity Laban conservatoire and couldn’t afford the travel. Here was her chance to waltz away for free.“I kid you not – there was this ad in the paper,” she says. “British Airways ballroom dance competition … Yes please!” Maxwell enlisted a friend and, despite sparse…

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it.“These sloths are the lowest form of existence,” Buffon wrote, originally in French. “One more defect would have made their lives impossible.”Despite having a top travel range of about 5 feet (1.5 m) per hour, there's one part of this arboreal curiosity that's actually a hive of activity and could hold the key to new human medicines for drug-resistant…