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The Shot Everyone Was Waiting For The first Moana live-action teaser dropped last November and played coy. Disney showed beaches, ocean light, a girl walking with her grandmother…
The Show That Held the Franchise Together After The Rise of Skywalker left Star Wars fans cold and quarrelsome, Disney+ needed a win badly. It got one. The Mandalorian arrived with dust on its boots and a green baby on its shoulder, and for two seasons it reminded people why they loved this universe in…
You Share More DNA With Your Dog Than You’d Guess Humans and dogs share roughly 84% of their DNA — over 17,000 similar genes woven through both species. That’s not a rounding error. Scientists have identified shared variants in genes tied to starch digestion (AMY2B), high-altitude adaptation (EPAS1), and food motivation (POMC). The starch connection…
Pants, Pseudonyms, and New York’s Oldest Basketball Team New York’s NBA franchise has gone by the Knicks for so long that most fans have no idea what the full name actually means. The team is still officially the Knickerbockers — and if you’ve never heard that word used in any other context, you’re in good…
The Role That Almost Was Before Jason Momoa was hauling tridents and flooding city blocks, he was this close to strapping on spurs. In the mid-2010s, director Antoine Fuqua was assembling his remake of The Magnificent Seven, and Momoa had signed on to play the villain — a heavy, grim-faced enforcer role that would eventually…