Geography is a bit like CS in that under the hood it's a sprawling interdsiciplinary mess - but yes, should a have better reputation than it does, possibly for that very reason. Disagree that (a lot of) maths is empty of any application, though (tho the way if thinking itself is the most important).

One area where maths is v specific, and differs from sciences (the reason, in fact, why maths isn't a science) is that it deals with rigorous, indisputable proof, rather than the scientific method of testing falsifiable hypotheses through experiments. Both are excellent to learn, of course.

Not trying to quibble with the principle of your advice, btw - which I think is excellent advice - I'm just genuinly not sure how I'd rank maths and CS in terms of generality (I haven't studied physics, apart from the odd physicsy module in maths, so I couldn't comment there).

Maths is certainly very general in teaching you a way of thinking, plus foundational skills at depth if that's what you mean - prob the most general (studied maths myself, so I may be biased here). CS (which I have also studied) arguably covers a wider range of concrete applications IRL, though.

Just mentioning that because it's hard to say how "generalised" CS is as a a subject - its a bit of a Frankensubject in many ways (and often quite interdisciplinary, e.g. when it comes to NLP).

On Computer Science, it can vary quite a lot from institution to institution (and even, depending on the options, within a given course) in what it involves, from basically applied maths to "doing science with computers" to "the science of computers" to basically software engineering.

Maths is, of course, a great degree course for your career - except that it does tend to be taken by mathematician types, who... well.

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[Wikis furiously]

This is good stuff:
"He argues that the social sciences are a product of the modern ethos of secularism, which stems from an ontology of violence."

Next time someone asks me to name one good thing the Tories have done, I shall remember this.

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Well, according to Maurice Glasman, it is - just waiting for him to demand the UK introduces a Chinese-style hukou system.

Another disaster for political debate was the discovery of how effective simple soundbites and talking points repeated ad nauseum in place of any attempt at considered, good-fatih discussion could be. Hard to see how that gets rolled back too, since there's an obvious imperative to do what works.

And to follow up with 5 concerts I've seen in Cambridge, because one set of 5 feels too few:

Fugazi (The Junction)
Blur (The Junction)
Carter USM (The Junction)
Ian McCulloch (The Corn Exchange)
Bark Psychosis (Clare Cellars)

It may be that my memory is hazy, or that I'm descending into fogeyness, but I do think I remember that allowing people to finish what they were saying used to be a thing.

I personally think an underestimated part of this is people routinely interrupting and talking over each other in discussions on TV (and being allowed to) - it, often by design, kills off any scope for considered, expanded and nuanced contributions, which has a knock-on effect on the broader debate.

One of the many reasons for getting into off-road cycling is seeing wild animals on your rides out in the sticks - I often see muntjacs, foxes, squirrels, rats, rabbits, hares, pheasants, various birds of prey and other animals while hacking around. That was when I saw the red deer too.