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Modern Family’s cast shares several heartfelt posts on the last day of filming the Emmy-winning series: ‘It’s been a great 11 years & 250 episodes’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 01:36 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 01:36 GMT, 22 February 2020 This show started modestly in 2009, and has gone on to practically … Read more
Charles King’s engaging The Reinvention Of Humanity reveals how the sex life of American Samoans helped shape modern society By Julia Llewellyn Smith Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 December 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 December 2019 The Reinvention Of Humanity Charles King … Read more
Many of North America’s big cities are paralyzed by gridlocked traffic – and these maps illustrate part of the reason why. They show the sprawling city transit systems of yesteryear compared to the often stunted versions of 2019. One is left wondering what life would be like in some of these metropolitan areas now if … Read more
Gozitans (as they are called) are well-schooled in accepting their lot. ‘The rest of Malta thinks we still live in caves,’ a grandmother in the capital Victoria (so named after our former queen, who, unlike her great-great-granddaughter, never actually made it here) tells me. In fact, they live mainly in two or three-storey houses (nothing … Read more
The ancestors of modern birds living in Canada 75 million-years-ago became warm blooded very early in their evolution, a study of dinosaur eggshells revealed. Experts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University studied the chemical bonds of the shells to find the body temperature of the animal inside. They wanted to discover exactly … Read more
That awkward moment when you’re wearing headphones and the checkout person asks you a question. What to do? Try the Cleer Flow II headphones! By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:26 GMT, 26 January 2020 Cleer Flow II Headphones £249, cleeraudio.com I think of … Read more
A French infantry helmet from World War I offered better protection from blasts than the modern US Army helmet, new experiment shows A group of engineering researchers at Duke tested four military helmets They compared the current US standard helmet to three World War I helmets They found the French WWI helmet, called Adrian, outperformed … Read more
The eccentrically compelling burlesque La Grand Macabre is a milestone in modern music theatre played at the Elbphilharmonie hall By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 18 May 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 May 2019 Le Grand Macabre Elbphilharmonie hall, Hamburg Rating: György Ligeti’s eccentrically compelling burlesque Le Grand Macabre, with an overture … Read more
Orasay 31 Kensington Park Rd, London Rating: Stars, eh? Astro-nomical objects, luminous spheroids of plasma, things where the fault, dear Brutus, is … Read more