#adaptation

#adaptation

Bill Gates is urging the world to rethink its approach to climate change, arguing that an overly catastrophic narrative is driving resources away from the solutions that could have the greatest impact on human welfare. In a lengthy memo published Tuesday morning-coinciding with his 70th birthday-the Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist challenged what he called a "doomsday view of climate change" that he believes is causing policymakers to "focus too much on near-term emissions goals" at the expense of more effective interventions.

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ~Rumi I didn't know what it meant to grieve a body that was still alive until mine turned on me. It began like a whisper-fatigue that lingered, strange symptoms that didn't match, a quiet fear I tried to ignore. Then one night, I collapsed. I woke up in a hospital room I didn't recognize, attached to IVs I hadn't agreed to, surrounded by medical voices that spoke in certainty while I sat in confusion.

Shortly after last month's Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle confirmed last weekend as the highest-grossing anime feature of all time a big-screen outing for a movie adaptation of what, in manga terms, is a relative upstart: Tatsuki Fujimoto's gore-soaked coming-of-age saga, first serialised in 2018. Standard critical guidance applies: what will doubtless be catnip for fans is likely to prove varyingly baffling for newcomers, arriving late to a frenetic game offering few chances for catchup.

The most enduring images of The Creature in pop culture actually have next to nothing to do with the way he's described in Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus; in the book, he's eight feet tall with yellow, translucent skin, and most importantly, he's incredibly intelligent - so much so that he's able to eloquently narrate his own story for a chunk of the novel.

Roald Dahl made his career writing children's books that dared to be mean (yes, sometimes in rather unfortunate ways). Across almost 20 novels, the British author spun fantastical tales with unsentimental wit, infusing his work with darkly morbid humor, blithe child endangerment, rotten and antagonistic adults, and a willingness to occasionally laugh at the misfortune of others. And no other work of Dahl's gets more pitch-black than "The Twits," a thin, acidic little text about deeply repugnant people.

Can training a goshawk cure grief? Or treat it, in some way? Will keeping it indoors hooded so that it remains calm and then taking it out hunting allow you to reconnect radically with nature in a way that prissy townies will never understand? Or is this just a domesticated festival of cruelty to both bird and prey and a symptom of serious depression?

Back to selection(2025), directed by independent Argentinian collective Pin de Fartie El Pampero Cine member Alejo Moguillansky, is less an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's one-act play Fin de Partie (1957) than a centrifugal expansion unfolding into multiple nested narratives riffing on the play's themes: death, departure and the approach of an ending. Marking a tonal shift from Moguillansky's ensemble comedies, Pin de Fartie possesses a sense of wistful tragedy.

The production has received backlash for the casting of Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, with critics calling for a Black actor to play the latter character, described in the book as having dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin. Fennell explained her decisions, recalling the moment she wanted to scream when she saw Elordi with sideburns on the Saltburn set, as he reminded her of Dirk Bogarde and looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first book that I read.

If the experience of watching One Battle is so propulsive that you leave the theater feeling like you haven't taken a breath in hours, Vineland is far more digressive, switching genres by the page, with a plot that's more varied than the relatively simple man-tries-to-rescue-daughter story of One Battle. For one thing, Vineland has significant supernatural elements, including the existence of a class of person called a Thanatoid-souls caught between life and death.

A disproportionate amount of your success comes from your effort in the last 5%. Let's use fitness examples and then bring it back to work and life. Picture doing a plank. If you're feeling type A, do one after reading this. When you get to the point where you are ready to drop, say to yourself, "Just five more seconds." Count out loud, and you can do it.

I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current makes for stronger fish." That's it. That's what entrepreneurship is. We're constantly encountering currents that either facilitate what we want to accomplish-the businesses we want to build, the lives we want to create-or they oppose us, trying to sweep us into dangerous waters. These currents change all the time. They vary in strength depending on where you are in your journey. And here's the thing: they're mostly invisible until you learn to feel them.

But Lego franchise games seem to have turned a corner now, as Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was a nicely refreshed take on the entire series, even as it retained the core Lego game collectathon loop. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight looks to be an even greater departure, standing firmly on a love of Batman across all his media incarnations.

Esi Edugyan's 2018 novel Washington Black unfolds the tale of George Washington Black, a Black boy on a Barbados plantation, who becomes the protege of a white scientist.

Thematically, ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is about a group of Australian prisoners of war constructing the Burma railway in the mid-1940s, focusing on the lasting trauma of conflict and imprisonment.

Chronic stress affects more than mood-it has a compounding effect on the body and mind. It impairs the hippocampus, which helps regulate the body's stress response.

"What you can expect from the sequel is a glimpse into Alex and Henry's life after the confetti has finished falling from the first movie."

Absolute cinema, proclaimed one fan, sharing a Martin Scorsese meme.

The season two cliffhanger ending and tease of what's to come in season three just didn't land for a lot of people, and there are a lot of questions from viewers as to whether the show can survive the loss of Pedro Pascal's Joel.

"We, the people in the towns surrounding the lakes, have witnessed this process of eutrophication... The lakes have gone from being recreational gems to smelly and unsafe receptacles for our chemicals."

Disney's latest musical, while visually appealing and entertaining, lacks the innovative spirit of its predecessors, resulting in an experience that's adequate but not memorable.

Based on Esi Edugyan's bestselling novel, "Washington Black" chronicles the adventurous life of an 11-year-old enslaved boy seeking freedom and identity.