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Some of these links are my own pages, some are other people's.
Updated 11 March 1999
The serious stuff
- Geology. Shropshire is one of the classic areas in
the development of geology. See my Web pages for the Shropshire
Geological Society.
- The philosophy of Karl Popper - one of the foremost
philosophers of science and spokesman for freedom of thought. His work is one of the best justifications of freedom
and democracy. He attacked various fallacies of many modern thinkers: historicism (the belief that there is some
irresistible "march of history"), the false appeal of dictatorships of the left and right, "inductivism"
(the belief that you can justify what you believe by simply finding more and more confirming examples), and the
belief that knowledge can be made absolutely certain. At the same time he presented a methodology of science that
is applicable across most human endeavour.
Just for fun
- Walking. Shropshire is great for this.
- Travel and photography. See the Picture Page.
- Listening to Western classical music, Indian classical music and African music. Isn't it strange that something
that seemingly is inessential to our survival as a species can be so important to and take up so much of the time
of most of the human race?
Some tingles:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Ninth Symphony, Piano Concerto
no. 5 ("Emperor")
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony, Serenade to
Music, Five Tudor Portraits, The Lark Ascending
- Frederick Delius: Sea Drift, Requiem, A Mass of Life, Idyll
- Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis, Intimations of Immortality, Clarinet Concerto
- Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
- Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Four Sea Interludes from
Peter Grimes, Hymn to St. Cecilia
- William Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Pasacaglia
- Leos Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, The Cunning Little Vixen
(Final Scene), Sinfonietta
- Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Presentation of the Rose
and Final Scene), Four Last Songs, Capriccio (final scene)
- Hanns Eisler: Serious Songs
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 2
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
- Zoltan Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus
- Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto no.3
- This way to the Jazz and Roots Club.
- Place names: A small collection of amusing British
(mainly English) place names (originally posted to alt.humor.puns).
- Swimming. Isn't it silly to wear clothes to swim? The Clothing
Optional pages.
- Sub-aqua diving (but I think UK waters are just too cold...).
Other recommended sites on the Web
See here for a list.
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