What makes a really great #videogame#adaptation stand out from lots of mediocre ones? Here's a deep dive. Tl;dr: It's not the special effects, but rather the experience. The main examples he explores are #Fallout (the ne plus ultra of adaptations) and #TheLastOfUs (which is only almost as good, mostly because the game was a bit too cinematic in the first place).
Le PNACC3 ! Je vous en ai déjà parlé mes p'tits Mastoufoux.... une sorte de légende urbaine que nos petits enfants raconteront à leur petits enfants en 2090 avec +4,2° de #RC ...
Poor Things, Rich Adaptation? Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel & Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film
28 May, 6–7:30pm CEST (5–6:30 BST)
Free online
Dietmar Böhnke will assess what is arguably the highest-profile #adaptation of a #Scottish novel since TRAINSPOTTING (1996) – & will touch on Gray’s works & reputation more generally, including a #film script he wrote for #PoorThings in 1993…
New paper from our group led by @lawojcik! We found that not only trait adaptation among but also within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning in simple food webs. Models may gain to consider multiple diversity facets and their corresponding sources of trait adaptation. Read more at https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10544.
How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution
The massive supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago has been blamed for nearly killing off our species. The emerging truth is much more interesting - by Gemma Tarlach April 29, 2024
"...Stone tools have been found both above and below layers of Toba ash deposited in northern India, the Arabian Peninsula, and elsewhere, showing that humans were present in those areas before and after the catastrophic eruption. They found ways to weather the actual event and any changes in climate that followed. And in March, after decades of research in a remote corner of Ethiopia, a multidisciplinary team determined that humans there survived shifts in climate likely caused by the distant eruption by changing their diet and, quite possibly, innovating a new hunting technique: archery..."
#Eau : avec une ressource en baisse et des consommations en hausse, les tensions vont s’accroître en France.
France Stratégie détaille les pressions sur la ressource hydrique, dont le partage sera de plus en plus un enjeu majeur d’ #adaptation.
Je relève "l’usage des surfaces irriguées, d’abord destinées aux produits exportés, qu’ils soient à usage d’alimentation animale ou humaine (34 % des surfaces). Viennent ensuite la production d’aliments pour les animaux (28 %) puis celle pour les humains (26 %), ce qui démontre une nouvelle fois la pression de l’élevage dans les problématiques liées au #ChangementClimatique."
Thinking the next big climate resilience project at the house (once I get it put back together) is installing heat reflecting film on the windows that were not replaced. Not sure why I didn't do this earlier. 🤔 #climate#adaptation#heatwaves
The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray
“Novels narrated in the first-person or in the third- can have those choices rendered cinematically […]. But Gray used endnotes, illustrations, typography, plagiarism, self-reference, and the layout of the page to further his plots, to deepen his diegesis, and to make us laugh.”
This is very cool. Machine translation does well enough to give you the idea; it's about a pre-Hispanic climate-change resistant farming technique being revived.
(oh if you see what looks like "-200C" in translated text, that's not what it is, it's -20°C with some typography issues introduced by the translator. xD)
Last week, the Integrated-Assessment Modeling Consortium (#IAMC) & #ICONICS released an update of basic drivers of the the "Shared Socioeconomic Pathways" (#SSPs).
They are an integral part for #scenario research on #ClimateChange#mitigation & #adaptation.
Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance
'authors of a new study published in Science Advances have pinpointed a genetic variant that may have helped this population adapt to life at extraordinary heights. Tibetans in the Himalayas possess a different mutation in the same gene, suggesting both groups independently evolved similar adaptations to high-altitude living. The finding demonstrates “how evolution can sometimes favor common solutions to a common problem,” says Graham Scott, a physiologist at McMaster University who wasn’t involved in the study.'
The next #ecmn23 video is online. This time a very interesting talk by Lucy Szaboova from University of Exeter on whether #migration can be successful #ClimateChange#adaptation. She evaluates migration scenarios based on well-being, equity & sustainability criteria. Explore more in this concise 9 min video 🎞️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yji7uskWsE
Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet (dir. Sean Mathias) shows the screen can outdo the stage (www.theguardian.com)
Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance