March 2021

Lost Words: Beyond the Page is a beautiful platform puzzle that explores feelings of loss, told through the imagination of a young girl.

Lost words: beyond the page is a puzzle-platform developed by Sketchbook Games, Fourth Slate and Fourth Slate Limited, and published by Modus Games. Lost words tells a beautifully written story wrapped around an entertaining gameplay loop that exists to continue to push the player forward through the story.

The story of Lost words follows a young girl named Izzy, who decides to start filling out a journal in the hopes of one day becoming a writer. Izzy creates a character (the player can choose multiple names, but she will be called Grace from this point on), who is a girl residing in a fantasy realm. Lost words takes place in two contexts, with the girl controlling her imaginary avatar in both. In the journal sections of the game, the player uses the words written in the journal as platforms and can influence parts of the page to solve simple puzzles. These segments of the game include absolutely stunning watercolor visuals, depicting memories of Izzy’s past.

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These segments of Lost words: beyond the page are fully narrated and the vocal work is top notch, which helps form an emotional attachment to Izzy’s story. Writing in Lost words (created by Rhianna Pratchett, lead author of Grave robber and Rise of the Tomb Raider) is also stellar. It’s hard to say too much about the content of the story without spoiling the experience, especially since the game only lasts a few hours. In short, Lost pages begins as a whimsical story about a young girl’s relationship with her grandmother, only to take a dark turn, her fantasy world changing accordingly.

The other sections of the game involve the story told by Izzy, where the player controls Grace as she explores various fantastic stages, such as deserts and underwater cities. These games use 3D visuals to emulate a 2D art style, and they don’t appear as much as the graphics in the game’s log sections. Grace is a firefly keeper, which means she has her own magical firefly protector. . The player controls Grace with the left stick and the firefly with the right stick. The goal of each stage is to guide Grace to the end while clearing obstacles with the firefly.

As the story progresses, Grace finds magic words that can be summoned at any time. These are guided with the firefly to solve puzzles, such as using the word “Break” to destroy barriers and “Repair” to repair broken bridges. The puzzles in the game are quite basic, most of them consisting of trying different words on a single obstacle. This is a great video game concept that could easily form the basis for a more fleshed out experience, but in Lost words, these puzzles are only temporary distractions, almost as if to remind everyone that they are living a video game.

The story of Lost words manages to be sad and beautiful at the same time. The game only takes a few hours to complete and it’s never particularly difficult, but that’s because there is a way to tell its story. The production of the game is exceptional in terms of audio and visuals, and the brief glimpse players get into Izzy’s life is memorable. It falls into the niche of the short indie puzzle game that aims to hit the heartstrings, and it manages to tell a gripping story about dealing with grief while using video game media to keep players hooked along the way.

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Lost words: beyond the page will be released on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on April 6, 2021 and is currently available on Google Stadia. Screen Rant has been given a digital code for the Switch version of the game for the purpose of this review.

Our assessment:

4 out of 5 (Excellent)

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About the Author

ohe one of the most striking passages in Walter Isaacson’s new book ends near the end. It is 2019 and a scientific meeting is underway at the famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, but James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, is banned from it due to racist views and scientifically unfounded that it has. expressed on intelligence. Isaacson, who is to interview Watson, must therefore go to the house on the nearby campus that the scientist has been allowed to keep. When the conversation gets dangerously close to the question of the race, someone shouts from the kitchen, “If you’re going to let him say these things, then I’m going to have to ask you to leave.” Watson, 91, shrugs and changes course.

The voice of the kitchen belonged to Rufus, Watson’s middle-aged son who suffers from schizophrenia. “My father’s statements could make him sound like a fanatic and discriminatory,” he once said. “They just represent his rather narrow interpretation of genetic fate.” In many ways, observes Isaacson, Rufus is wiser than his father.

Genetic fate is a central theme of The code breaker, Isaacson’s portrayal of gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna, who, along with a small army of other scientists, handed mankind the first truly effective tools to shape it. Rufus Watson’s thoughts sum up the ambivalence that many people feel about this. If we had the power to rid future generations of diseases like schizophrenia, would we? The immoral choice would be not to do it, surely? What if we could improve healthy human beings by removing blemishes? The nagging worry – which might one day seem ridiculously ridiculous, if not cruel – is that we would lose something with these diseases and imperfections, in terms of wisdom, compassion, and, more difficult to define, humanity.

Doudna helped identify Crispr, a system that has evolved in bacteria for billions of years to repel invading viruses. Crispr-Cas9, to give it its name, disarms viruses by cutting their DNA. Bacteria invented it, but the idea that won Doudna – a biochemist at the University of California at Berkeley – the Nobel Prize in chemistry last year, along with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, was that he could be adapted to modify genes in other organisms, including humans. The article that sealed the duo’s fame was published in 2012, while Charpentier was working at Umeå University in Sweden. By early 2020, two dozen human trials were underway for medical applications of the technique – for conditions ranging from cancer to atherosclerosis to a congenital form of blindness.

Crispr’s story is made for cinema. It features a fierce race, more than its fair share of renegades, the highest prize in chemistry, a mammoth battle for patents, designer babies and acres of ethical quicksand. However, this presents a challenge for a biographer who must choose one character among several to carry this story. Isaacson chose Doudna, and you can see why. Having contributed to elucidating the fundamental science of Crispr, it remains involved in its clinical applications and in the ethical debate that it has sparked – unlike Charpentier who said he did not want to be defined by Crispr and is now pursuing other scientific questions. Doudna is the common thread of the story.

Still, you can’t help but wonder how this story might have read if it had been told from the perspective of Francisco Mojica, the Spanish scientist who first spotted Crispr in bacteria inhabiting salt ponds in the 1990s. He sensed that this was doing something important, then stubbornly pursued this line of research despite a lack of funding and everyone telling him he was wasting his time. Another story could still have been told by the two French food scientists who realized in 2007 that Crispr could be used to vaccinate bacteria against viruses, thus securing the future of the global yogurt industry, or the Lithuanian biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys, who moved the story again, but whose work was rejected by top journals.

Each made a vital contribution, and it’s hard to say which, if any, was the most important. A similar dilemma preoccupied Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann in their 2001 play Oxygen, who asked who should receive a “Retro-Nobel” for the discovery of the eponymous gas. Should it go to the scientist who discovered oxygen but did not publish his discovery, the one who published but did not understand the meaning of the discovery, or the one who grasped its meaning but only through the ideas of the two others ?

Focusing on Doudna also portrays Crispr’s story as more American than it was. Doudna herself has recognized its international dimension, on her own account, A crack in creation (2017). “All in all, we would be quite an international group,” she wrote of the team that produced the 2012 seminal article, “a French professor in Sweden, a Polish student in Austria, a German student, a Czech postdoctoral fellow and an American professor. in Berkeley ”. The fact that his Czech postdoctoral fellow and the Polish student of Charpentier grew up close to each other – on both sides of a border – and that both speak Polish, strengthens the group’s synergy and accelerates the writing the article.

It is precisely because so many people have contributed, and because they do not agree on the importance and the primacy of their contributions, that they remain tangled up on the subject of ownership. The Crispr revolution owes a lot to America and the importance it places on creativity and innovation, but like so many scientific breakthroughs, there was an element of convergence – people reaching independently and more or less simultaneously to the same idea. (Isaacson suggests that the radar and the atomic bomb were also American inventions, but radar was developed in many countries as WWII approached, while European refugees from that war helped build the bomb. .)

It is not just the process of discovery that is collective. As soon as a discovery is made public, an even wider circle of people apply it, and they may not have the same priorities. It’s easy and fair to condemn Chinese maverick He Jiankui for altering the genes of twins Lulu and Nana, supposedly to protect them from HIV infection, but in his passionate response to Doudna’s criticisms of his act, it seems buried a grain of truth. “You don’t understand China,” he told her. “There is an incredible stigma attached to being HIV positive and I wanted to give these people a chance to lead normal lives…” Genetic fate means different things to different people, as Rufus Watson understands.

Isaacson, who is best known for his lives as Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, remains an accomplished portrait painter. He captures the frontier spirit of Harvard geneticist George Church in an anecdote of how, when Church was a child, his doctor-in-law father-in-law let him administer hormone injections to his patients (Church recently tested experimental Covid-19 vaccines on itself). Isaacson also has a privileged point of view, knowing the history of Crispr and the personalities who have shaped it. In 2000, as editor-in-chief of Time, he put the two men leading competing efforts to sequence the human genome – Francis Collins and Craig Venter – on the cover. He understands the tensions that lead to discovery and how flawed brilliant people can be. This story was always guaranteed to be a page-turner in his hands. It’s just that science has overtaken biography as a medium. His subject should have been Crispr, not Doudna.

If you like home makeover shows but are fed up with the lightly done and dusted off format, we’ve got you covered. But don’t give up hope just yet, because “Rock the Block” Season 2 is here to shake things up!

Season 2 features eight of HGTV’s biggest names in home improvement and design, as they team up in teams of two to completely transform identical three-story suburban properties in just one month. With a budget of $ 225,000 and just a month to do it all, these duos have a lot at stake, including significant bragging rights and a chance to have a street named after them!

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With the charming Ty Pennington as the host, each challenge will have a different judge who will select the winners. And who better to judge competing makeover show hosts than other hosts! Enter ‘Flip or Flop Nashville’ host Page Turner, who will judge the living room and foyer transformations.
So who exactly is Page Turner? Here’s what we know about the real estate agent and the seasoned entrepreneur.

Turner was dating his co-host, DeRon Jenkins, for quite a while

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It’s not always that people are successful in maintaining friendships with their exes, let alone working together. However, Turner and his co-host, former professional athlete turned entrepreneur DeRon Jenkins, prove they are the exception to this rule. The couple met in 2008 and dated for about 5 years before going their separate ways. However, over the years, they maintained their friendship and realized that while they weren’t great as a couple, they worked well as a team. In an HGTV article, Turner hinted that their time as a couple has helped them understand each other as co-workers. “We work very well with each other,” Page said, speaking of their dynamics. “I know exactly what makes him tick, he knows exactly what makes me tick and we do all the work.”

she is a single mother

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In addition to being an entrepreneur and host, Turner is also a mother of three daughters. Zaire arrives at the oldest of the trio while Qai and Quincy are twins. We don’t know much about the father of his children. Her children are well over twenty years old, as Zaire and Quincy graduated from college in 2018 and 2019 respectively, as reported by Live RampUp.

She has a net worth of …

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Turner is the epitome of “do it till you break it”. Having worked in real estate for over a decade, there is a bit that she hasn’t touched on in her career. She wears many hats, according to her website, identifying herself as “an extraordinary entrepreneur, prime broker, business development coach, vision strategist and founder of EGAP Real Estate and LIFE-Changers, Int’l ™.” So it’s no surprise that his current net worth is estimated at $ 3 million.

Watch Season 2 of “Rock The Block” Mondays at 9 p.m. ET / PT on HGTV and you can stream the same on Discovery +.

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