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We’re Getting More Harry Potter Books!
Good News my fellow Muggles, we’re getting 3 new Harry Potter books just in time for Christmas this year! The books are called Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts, Harry Potter: Creatures: A Paper Scene Book and Harry Potter: Imagining Hogwarts: A Beginner’s Guide to Movie making. They’re not any new books by any means, they’ll be extensions of JK Rowling’s material w/ pop up pages and behind the scenes treasure troves with the 1st book out October 30th.
NASA Willing to Pay You to Figure Out How to Convert CO2
NASA wants you to get your science on and learn how to turn CO2 into other Molecules on Mars and they’re rewarding you with $750,000! The Co2 conversion challenge wants you to focus on converting CO2 to Glucose and you can approach it any way you wish. You also must effectively recycle supplies brought from Earth and use local resources such as CO2, water, and regolith to manufacture mission-relevant products. Teams or individuals must register by January 24th of 2019.
We Got Our First Official Look at Captain Marvel!
If you’re worried about who’s coming to save the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Thanos spared half of the Avenger’s lives… Never fear, the MCU’s first female superhero is here and we got our first look at her yesterday, Captain Marvel! Entertainment Weekly released the photo of actress Brie Larson suited up as Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers and she looks dope. Complete with the blue, red and gold on her suit. If you don’t know much about Captain Marvel, she’s an air force pilot that becomes a superhero after a meeting with a Kree alien. You can expect Captain Marvel to drop on International Women’s Day March 8th
Spiderman For PS4 Released on Friday
The long-awaited Marvel Spiderman is finally out today!
I got to test it out at E3 and from what I remember, it was a bit of a learning curve to learn all the crazy awesome spidey moves but once you get it down… You’ll be flying through the concrete jungle of NYC in no time, spitting webs in the face of criminals. I hear if you liked Batman: Arkham franchise, you’ll love this game. IGN gave a solid review of the game; the link is above the game cover.
