Mary Morris Knowles: Devout, Worldly and ‘Gay’?

The outing of Philip Morris: advertising tobacco to gay men.

OBJECTIVES This case study describes the events surrounding the first time a major tobacco company advertised in gay media. METHODS We analyzed internal tobacco company documents, mainstream newspapers, and the gay press. RESULTS Philip Morris was unprepared for the attention its entry into the gay market received. The company's reaction to this incident demonstrates that its approach to th...

Richard Ettenson and Jonathan Knowles

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Worldly Indeterminacy: a Rough Guide

There is a widespread suspicion that indeterminacy and vagueness can only be features of claims or representations, and hence that it makes no more sense to ask whether the world is indeterminate than it does to ask whether the world rhymes or whether it’s written in English. On this view, it is not a genuine possibility that the world itself — as opposed to our representations of it — may be u...

Lieut.-Col. Robert Knowles

Jonathan Knowles from Myerscough

All plants have relationships and associations with animals, invertebrates, other plants, and microbes. This relationship or symbiosis can be beneficial, antagonistic or neither. Turf diseases are a good example of an antagonistic association and conversely, mycorrhizal fungi are a classic example of a beneficial relationship. In this article I want to introduce, or at least review a symbiosis ...