The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
It's 23 years since the late Vito Russo published his groundbreaking book about homosexuality in the movies, The Celluloid Closet. Later made into a documentary featuring everyone from Susan Sarandon to Harry Hamlin, the book has certainly dated. Read today, it seems awfully prescriptive. Russo's central thesis, that gay men and women have always been portrayed as one-dimensional figures, may have...
>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --< (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Paul Davies (not the physicist but the philosopher at William and Mary) gets interviewed here (and there’s an audio clip here) on the possibility that we might have to give up on free will and what that might mean for...
ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
William Graham bends over in front of Paul Davies today in the Senedd.
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
| Peter Klein | Utrecht University is sponsoring a conference on “The Governance of the Modern Firm,” 11-13 December 2008, featuring contributions from Paul Davies, Roberta Romano, Bill Lazonick, and many others. (Via Geoff Hodgson.) Posted in - Klein -, Conferences, Corporate Governance, Theory of the Firm
Where Worlds Collide (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... , on stage their music is harder-edged and more guitar driven; for instance, on ‘Apocalypstick’, Paul Davies’ guitar replaces the absent electric violin. They’re not resting on their laurels when it comes to material; the set included no fewer than five new songs written since the recording of the album. A couple of those, the quite poppy ‘Into the Fire’ and the very spiky ‘Go’ had...
The Design Matrix (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... about the designer(s), but there is no good reason for thinking it is necessary . For example, Paul Davies doesn’t think it is necessary: “If ET has put a message into terrestrial organisms, this is surely where to look,” said Davies. A computer could be used to find obvious attention-grabbing patterns within these stretches of DNA, he said. If a sequence of junk units of DNA...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... began appearing in the scientific literature in various fields. Leading theoretical physicist Paul Davies described the fine-tuning of the universe as "the most compelling evidence for an element of cosmic design." Fred Hoyle, the eminent theoretical physicist and agnostic, followed with The Intelligent Universe (1983), featuring chapter titles like "The Information Rich Universe"...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... a slightly smaller difference between median full-time annual pay of men and women, of 28 per cent.Paul Davies, Unum's marketing and business development director, said the firm's survey suggests the pay gap between the sexes appeared to be growing, and gender and age issues remained "at the very heart" of pay disparities in the UK."Employers need to be careful and act swiftly to...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... showed a smaller 28% difference in median full-time annual pay between working men and women. Paul Davies, Unum's marketing and business development director, said the pay gap between the sexes appeared to be growing and gender and age issues remained "at the very heart" of pay disparities in the UK. "Employers need to be careful and act swiftly to address gender and age inequalities...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... 2007, showed a smaller 28% difference in median full-time annual pay between working men and women.Paul Davies, Unum's marketing and business development director, said the pay gap between the sexes appeared to be growing and gender and age issues remained "at the very heart" of pay disparities in the UK."Employers need to be careful and act swiftly to address gender and age inequalities...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Police have named a 49-year-old Te Horo man who died last night after he lost control of his car near Otaki. Paul Davies died when his car left the road about 10.55pm on Otaki Gorge Road, 7km south of Otaki. The serious crash...
icWales (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
It’s sweet 16 as Marcos rips up the record books by Anthony Woolford, South Wales Echo SPLOTT maintained their 100 per cent start to their campaign with a record-breaking 5-0 win over Pumas.Paul Davies helped himself to a hat-trick before Adam McGrath then got in on the scoring act bagging his first of the season.Then history was made as Marcos Jones became the league’s youngest goal...
BBC NEWS | Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
News from the Conservative Group, who have "agreed that South Wales East AM William Graham will continue as chair with Preseli Pembrokeshire AM Paul Davies as his deputy". Mr Graham, who has been doing the job for eight years, simply says that he's "very pleased we have been able to resolve this issue and we can all now move forward together". Mr Davies adds only that this "decision...
