Rafael Galvão de Almeida Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Email: rga1605 (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Humanity’s technological progress is nothing short of incredible. If we consider that civilization is 12,000 years old, the vast majority of technological advances was produced in the lastContinue reading ““Believe in Getter!” or “Believe in humanity!”? Getter Robo Saga as a parable of technology”
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A critical reappraisal of dinosaur reconstructions in Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals
Rafael M. Rosa Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. E-mail: Email: rafaelmassonrosa (at) usp (dot) br Download PDF Zoo Tycoon 2 is a zoo-building simulation game developed by Blue Fang Games and originally released in 2004 as a sequel to the classic Zoo TycoonContinue reading “A critical reappraisal of dinosaur reconstructions in Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals”
The sea slugs of Shiroi Suna no Aquatope
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador¹ & Ken Kuroki² ¹ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com ² Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan. Email: kurokik (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Shiroi Suna no Aquatope (白い砂のアクアトープ) is a new anime by P.A. Works thatContinue reading “The sea slugs of Shiroi Suna no Aquatope”
Facing extinction in Endling
Interview with Javier Ramello Download PDF Endling – Extinction is Forever is an upcoming multi-platform game developed by Herobeat Studios and published by HandyGames. As its name implies[1], the game tells the story of the last known survivors of a species. This a very timely game, as it touches upon a topic that is theContinue reading “Facing extinction in Endling”
Morphological and behavioural aspects of the infected in The Last of Us: a natural science look at a videogame fungus-human parasitoid interaction
Andrea Villa1 & Alessio del Negro2 1Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Email: andrewjayhouse (at) gmail (dot) com 2Independent Researcher, Milano, Italy. Email: alessio.delnegro05 (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Starting in 2013 and recently back to hit the headlines with the sequel, The Last of Us (TLoU, hereinContinue reading “Morphological and behavioural aspects of the infected in The Last of Us: a natural science look at a videogame fungus-human parasitoid interaction”
The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts
João Vitor Tomotani¹ & Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador² ¹ Independent Researcher. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ² Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Emails: tjvitor (at) gmail (dot) com; salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF The Fate franchise started with the computer game Fate/stay night back in 2004. To put it briefly,Continue reading “The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts”
An eldritch anecdote of death’s-head hawkmoth from The Silence of the Lambs
Muzafar Riyaz Division of Taxonomy & Biodiversity, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: bhatmuzaffar471 (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is an American psychological horror film that was reconstructed from a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme and writtenContinue reading “An eldritch anecdote of death’s-head hawkmoth from The Silence of the Lambs”
Short note on recent sightings of Rodan in Godzilla Singular Point
Henry Nathaniel Thomas University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Email: h.thomas (at) berkeley (dot) edu Download PDF Since the time I wrote a previous Journal of Geek Studies article on the giant pterosaur kaiju Rodan (Thomas, 2020), another piece of media featuring the character has aired: the anime series Godzilla Singular Point by the studiosContinue reading “Short note on recent sightings of Rodan in Godzilla Singular Point”
Floral gigantism in the Pokémon world
Lucas C. Marinho1 & Liming Cai2 1 Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. Email: lc.marinho (at) ufma (dot) br 2 Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, USA. Email: limingc (at) ucr (dot) edu Download PDF With more than 260,000 species, flowering plants represent one ofContinue reading “Floral gigantism in the Pokémon world”
Fly-A-Way: a board game to save migratory birds
Interview with Simon Vincent Download PDF Fly-A-Way is a brand new board game created by the team at Playlogue Creations.[1] In it, players are conservationists helping out birds in their migration across one of the world’s largest flyway.[2] The birds will face many dangers, so the players will have to make sure these critters complete theirContinue reading “Fly-A-Way: a board game to save migratory birds”
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