Tag: modern
Frances Glessner Lee, the Mother of Modern Forensic Science, Made Crime Scene Dioramas
Meet the Mother of Modern Forensic Science Who Made Crime Scene Dioramas How a determined socialite, inspired by true crime, helped professionalize the field of murder investigations By Katie Hafner, Marcy Thompson & The Lost Women of Science Initiative Frances Glessner Lee at work on a dollhouse crime scene reconstruction. Frances Glessner Lee discovered her…
Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet Marries Lindsay Schweitzer
After Eric Stonestreet and Lindsay Schweitzer married after eight years together, leading Eric’s Modern Family costar Jesse Tyler Ferguson to gush: “Of all second marriages, this one is my favorite!” Eric Stonestreet is celebrating another trip around the sun with a new title: husband. The Modern Family star revealed he and longtime love and Lindsay Schweitzer tied the…
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
Emily Feng STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese computing — and central to ongoing questions about the politics of language. One man succeeded more than any other before him.…
Australia exposed to modern slave labour imports and many businesses ‘ignoring the facts’, commissioner warns
The scale of Australia’s trade with blacklisted companies, revealed in Guardian investigation, prompts anger across the Uyghur community Australia’s new anti-slavery commissioner has called on the government to urgently address the “inadequacy” of its forced labour laws after revelations that it had allowed thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted for their alleged links to…
TV is too risk-averse, says Grange Hill creator
Grange Hill and Hollyoaks creator Sir Phil Redmond has said that modern broadcasting lacks courage, and suggested that TV watchdog rules should be broken more often. The man behind the iconic soaps said gritty programming was important, and that there was a vacuum of such for today’s youth. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme,…