Adapt

Image via Disney Plus In a week where the entirety of nerd culture is excited about the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the celebrity and fashion world has been swept up in the glitz and glamor of the Met Gala. While you might not expect Hollywood’s biggest party of the year to have much crossover potential with the MCU, however, let’s hope the close proximity of the two aforementioned events has given Kevin Feige the idea to introduce Marvel’s own answer to the Met Gala in the franchise’s…

For risk-averse accountants and chief financial officers, change can be hard. But artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies are coming, and financial officers who don’t adapt may find themselves left behind.   “Finance people tend to be inherently conservative. Managing risk is always going to be at the core of the finance role,” said Myles Corson, Global and Americas Strategy and Markets Leader for Financial Accounting Advisory Services at Ernst & Young. This is especially true when the technology is…

Collective adaptation can be seen as an emergent property of a complex socio-cognitive system driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social environments and problem structures collectives face. Credit: Journal of the Royal Society Interface/Galesic et al In times of crisis, groups of people respond in a variety of ways—with sometimes vastly different outcomes. A company might be resilient during a…

Author Aaron Foley’s debut novel Boys Come First only released last May, but Amazon is already making moves to turn its queer, Black millennial-focused story into a series.Deadline reports that Amazon’s developing an adaptation of Boys Come First that will be executive produced by Ted Lasso’s Chuck Hayward, who will also write the pilot and is in talks to become the series’ showrunner. Set in Foley’s native Detroit, Boys Come First tells the story of Dominick Gibson, Troy Clements, and Remy Patton — three Black, gay…

New research from Atlantic Canada indicates lobster may be able to cope with warming ocean temperatures.The results were presented this week at the 30th annual meeting of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society, a Nova Scotia non-profit organization that helps co-ordinate collaborative research on Atlantic fisheries.The Centre for Marine Applied Research in Dartmouth, N.S., collected 240 lobsters from six different fishing areas around Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in May and June 2022.Some were placed in…

What is it about Great Expectations? Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s new dramatisation of Dickens’s novel is the seventh BBC adaptation – the first appearing on screens in 1954. Cinema has loved it too. David Lean’s 1946 film remains the most celebrated but there were three earlier film versions and have been five more since. The 1974 adaptation starred a youngish Michael York as Pip, Dickens’s self-deluding protagonist, obsessed with the unattainable Estella; the most recent was Mike Newell’s 2012 version,…

Credit: Earth Negotiations Bulletin, CC BY-ND This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people from dangerous climate impacts we can no longer avoid, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The synthesis report is the…

The world is adapting to the Metaverse but the real question is who is it actually for? The metaverse is appealing for numerous reasons, including its capacity to establish virtual economies that let users obtain virtual money to buy virtual goods via the internet. The real question that comes is who is it actually for? Who is adopting the Metaverse Genz or Millenials.? Brands can seize this chance by setting up virtual shops inside different metaverse platforms, providing users with a tailored experience and the ability…

Architecture student and Wallenberg Fellow Meghana Tummala is a University of Michigan scholar grappling with the impacts of climate change. In this artwork, inspired by study abroad in Mexico City, she reflects on the city's relationship with water: "Historically, it's clear through the pyramids that the Aztecs clearly valued and respected all aspects of the land they were inhabiting—including the water—but after colonization, water was seen as an…

<!----> Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) said it was working with industry to use hydrogen and renewable energy to decarbonise factories. It has recently developed new electrolysing equipment that produces hydrogen from water, using the fuel cell stack and other technologies from…