User:Doseduk

My name is Adam Richardson from Durham (North East England), UK.

I'm beginning a degree in Psychology at Northumbria University in September 2011 and since completing my A-Levels have also completed a Foundation Degree in Music Industry Management.

I have a keen interest in music theory, music production and performance, and taught myself guitar and piano as well as beginning to learn drums before having to sell my kit some time ago. I try to perform vocals but my ability is debatable!

I am very interested in popular science, astrophysics, astronomy, other areas of physics such as particle physics and quantum physics. I enjoy studying evolutionary biology (particularly inspired and based on the work of Richard Dawkins), evolutionary psychology and animal psychology. My interests in chemistry, other than in a general fascination with many general aspects of the more impressive and dramatic chemical reactions and interactions, lie heavily in the world of drugs and pharmacology.

I began to use computers at a fairly advanced level towards the end of primary school - operating old 386 type machines with 40-80Mb hard disks running MS-DOS or Windows 3.1. I loved writing computer programs in BASIC and later learnt about creating HTML pages. I no longer tend to program computers, however still find an interest in it and over the years sometimes start coding in Visual Basic or start designing and creating some kind of website idea.

Since quitting smoking, I have tried to be healthy and enjoy running. I will be running the Great North Run in 2011, raising money for a charity I have a lot of time for, The Anthony Nolan Trust.

I am an atheist and anti-theist and also concur strongly with Humanism. I am a vegetarian and have been since about the age of 10. I can't speak any other languages than my native English.

I joined Wikipedia because I've used it endlessly and tirelessly over the past few years and thought its about time I made a contribution. I believe it to be one of the most enterprising and significant applications of the World Wide Web in it's history thus far, and despise criticism from academia that it is unreliable or just full of opinions or falsities. In its simplest form, that may be true, but the concept of it being endlessly editable means that people like me, by registering and helping out, can help make it very reliable, referenced and stay one of the most useful tools on the WWW, and in the world today.