Sentences with phrase «thinking about adaptation»

I don't see how they can put off thinking about adaptation one day longer.

«So one thing we really need to do is think about adaptation: How are we going to adapt to climate change?»

Not exact matches

Freakonomics: The Movie (available on Netflix and Hulu) is Chad Troutwine's documentary film adaptation of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives - based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

Since the 1960s, and in new ways under this pope, Catholics are having an internal debate about how to adapt to liberal modernity, and in that debate there are conservatives who think we've had quite enough adaptation and liberals who think that more is needed.

Though he recognizes that what justice requires changes with changing circumstances, his thought about justice is so dominated by a «sense of things fixed» that little if any place is left for personal adaptation in its exercise.

I thought you might like to know that I made an adaptation of your green and black forest smoothie which I have written about on my blog (with a link back to your original recipe).

To avoid making a purchase that you may regret, it's best to think about the features you have seen such as adjustable handlebars, handlebar swivel control, and car seat adaptation.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rather CBT is an approach that relies on the use of many different techniques that are designed to deal with each unique situation and individual and focus primarily on the changing of particular behaviours, developing better strategies for managing troublesome situations, and learning how to think about, perceive and interpret circumstances in ways that lead to a healthier adaptation to conditions that are producing the symptoms.»

So the way you can think about it is not a really light load and not a really heavy load but basically kind of a medium load, the type of load you would use with right around 10 to 12 repetitions and so what that means is if all you're going after is getting yourself kind of tired out, really working the muscle and getting the maximum hormonal adaptation to strength training or to weight lifting or to lean muscle toning in the weight room — that 10 to 12 rep range is probably going to be a pretty good range for you if you really, truly are using about 75 % of your one repetition maximum.

When in doubt, think about the SAID principle - Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand.

As we begin to think about autophagy in general, and the specific mechanisms of mitophagy, the genius of the human body's innate natural survival adaptations reveal themselves in quite remarkable ways.

I think that it's all about adaptation.

Not only does it illuminate the evolutionary icon most people think of as A Beard, it's arguably the most insightful film about writing since Adaptation.

For all those fans of the books, I can't really think of much to complain about with this adaptation.

I think it is very possible that the adaptation to the movie has killed what was charming about the book.

I think about great adaptations of novels like «The Shining», which I guess Stephen King doesn't like because he saw something different in it.

But before we start thinking about what's to come, let's focus on 1922, Netflix's second King adaptation this -LSB-...]

«I think that it's more likely than not that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will be in it,» says the author about long - awaited adaptation

Producer Matthew Vaughn's directing debut is a briskly paced, stylish and bracingly bitter adaptation of J.J. Connolly's novel about a sleek London cocaine dealer who doesn't understand his business as well as he thinks.

I think I may be in the minority when I say that I liked Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit... Don't know whether that's a good thing to come to mind while thinking about this video game adaptation movie.

After you've been involved with so many adaptations, when you read a book for the first time now, do you find yourself having immediate thoughts about casting and staging?

When you think of Nicholas Sparks adaptations, or Beaches, or really just about almost any cancer melodrama, you never think of vomiting into buckets under gross fluorescent lights in crowded hospitals or hair falling out in clumps.

The adaptation uses the framework of Ray Bradbury's 1953 book about government suppression of free thought; his novel was influenced by Nazi book burnings and censorship in the McCarthy era.

But older children and teens will find plenty to think about in this adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's children's novel.

After seeing hearing they would direct an adaptation of Nick Hornby's fine novel About a Boy, I thought I would get a chance to retract that early statement.

With Tomb Raider being the latest videogame to get the movie adaptation treatment (again), we can't help but think about all the other games we'd like to see films of.

Those pieces look at the source novel and its adaptation, cast and performances, costumes and props, visual design, editing, and general thoughts about the flick.

I like Crowe, Damon is great, and Elle Fanning has cemented her place as one of my favorite young actresses to watch - but other than that, I haven't really heard much about this film and if it's a faithful adaptation, I think it has better commercial prospects than a shiny trophy.

I thought the movie was actually quite tight, and that it was about as faithful a literary adaptation as you're going to get.

The silver lining here might be that the film so clearly lays bare the problems inherent in eliminating the controller from the video game equation that Hollywood might finally think twice about spending $ 100 million plus on thinly - written adaptations of thinly - written games.

When I first heard about this adaptation, I thought, how could it be any better than the swingin» 60's TV series starring suave Robert Vaughn and the blonde David McCallum on whom I had THE most incredible crush?!

In the press materials they sent us, Johannes talks a lot about the influence of John Carpenter on this film and specifically Carpenter's Stephen King adaptation Christine, obviously with the flaming truck and I think with the use of music too.

In Una, the powerful screen adaptation of David Harrower's play «Blackbird» about the sexual abuse of a thirteen - year - old girl, Australian director Benedict Andrews does what has become increasingly uncommon in modern cinema — he makes us think.

In case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELL.

I was thinking about checking this out as the premises reminded me of Adaptation and, like you said before, Barton Fink, but decided not to.

When: July 3rd Why: Disney may think that they have another ready - made hit on their hands with this big screen adaptation of the popular radio serial, but I don't know many people that are actually excited about «The Lone Ranger,» and that includes myself.

Or maybe Shakespeare should have thought about how many children might watch the possibly PG 13 cinema adaptations of his films and refrained from having Gloucester's eyes plucked out in King Lear.

As for the manga adaptation, I think after at least a volume worth of chapters have gone by, we will be hearing an announcement from Kodansha about it being licensed.

You know, the guy who just signed a lucrative deal for those Virtual Holo - Reality (TM) adaptation rights that you signed away without thinking about them.

«Livin» on the Edge,» Aerosmith I love thinking of this song when I teach about plant adaptations — especially our plants that have adapted to growing on cliffs or rocky outcroppings.

Then again, we thought the same thing about The Witcher: White Wolf, the console adaptation of the first game, before it was dropped.

As a hardcore fan of Ghost in the Shell myself, I admit that I was more than a little intrigued to find out what Kojima thought about the live adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson.

Yet, most gaming specific adaptations are poor - to - middling, few of them authentic, and none of them with anything particularly profound or thought - provoking to say about games or pop - culture and why they transcend just about every culture there is.

However, if none of these geo - fixes work, then it will be time — and that time MIGHT be NOW — to start thinking realistically and creatively about ADAPTATION strategies for when the shite hits the fan, proverbially speaking that is.

I think some people don't see how integrated all this is, and how adaptation is not just about individuals, its about systems.

Given that the US has barely begun to think about and plan for its own adaptation challenges, that thus far it has no strategy or funding for its own preparedness, it is not clear what kind of international commitment US domestic politics will support.

Even among the researchers who find CE a policy option worth thinking about, the great majority analyzes those technologies not as a full - blown solution to climate change in their own right, but rather a necessary evil to supplement (neglected) mitigation and adaptation efforts.

It «says we really have to think long and hard» about «the science - based options we have» and the investment opportunities in adaptation strategies for the state.