Beach Bunnies

Private nurses and playboy bunnies: explaining permissible sex discrimination.

Discrimination on the basis of sex in employment is illegal--usually. In cases in which employers contend that sex-based hiring is necessary to protect the privacy interests of their customer, however, and in cases in which employers contend that sex-based hiring is necessary to provide a particular type of sexual titillation for their customers, courts sometimes do allow employers to discrimin...

Beach 2014 Theory Summary Beach 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

Macroinfauna of Wainui Beach, Gisborne - impact of beach protection structures

BEACH 2014 Theory Summary

I summarize key aspects of the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model in flavour physics as discussed at the BEACH 2014 conference in Birmingham.

The Crane Beach Conjecture

A language L over an alphabet A is said to have a neutral letter if there is a letter e ∈ A such that inserting or deleting e’s from any word inA does not change its membership (or non–membership) in L. The presence of a neutral letter affects the definability of a language in first–order logic. It was conjectured that it renders all numerical predicates apart from the order predicate useless, ...