Author Archives: Stuart G. Hall

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Staking a claim in Austria’s little goldmine

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Well looks like Jamie’s made his stake, and put down a reserve for a property in Rauris.I’m glad I had the opportunity to stay there a few times, and enjoyed the irony that this was a former industrial centre (yes, it really was once a goldmine), turned tourist attraction having myself done the ‘industrial archaeology’ thing.

But with the recent building of the neon-centric Spa supermarket in the town (I even emailed the local green MEP in protest), and now the new properties to fund new chair lift build I wonder if the secluded Rauris charm people are buying into hasn’t already started to fade? Hey, don’t get me wrong I loved Zakopane with its tourist side as well as old world charm, so maybe Rauris will get the balance right?

Einstein’s imagination vs (General) Knowledge

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If there’s one quote from Einstein that folk love approvingly to quote it’s the one that goes: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” When of course ‘they’ really have no idea what it really means, but somehow (like giving to charity) it makes them feel good & smart to endorse it. But to be blunt about it would you stake your life on imagination (or intutition) vs knowledge? When do you know your so-called gut instinct is right? How long before you really agree with ‘the old man’ that: “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”