Both brothers are dead and their hostage is freed

The police officer which was murdered by the terrorists was also a muslim.

It seems that the practical implementation of sharia IS a tyrannical nanny state.

for the Ignoble Prize!

The thing is that I remember reading it in Elektor around 1982 or 1983. I think in the context of an electronics show.

Brain chains

Brain hostile offices

Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds

If it is a flying fungus, then it is not a drone, but a manta!

This week I found a book in the library, "Ontketen je Brein" (Unchain Your Brain), the result of scientific research by Dutch psychologist Theo Compernolle.

In this book, he show how the brain really works and what adversely affects it.

The main thing he he does not stop repeating is: take a break, go off-line.

The main brain chains are:

• Being always on-line
• Multitasking and context switching
• A continuing low level of stress
• Lack of breaks and sleep
• Open offices

Very interesting stuff to read.

That will probably soon be the name of the Microsoft canteen.

(Got a 10 year old daughter who likes to watch Nickelodeon)

Possibly not in the US, I would not know about the UK, but here in Europe, she regularly has been in the news and on the agenda for her work.

Poul Anderson, The Star Fox

Larry Niven, Protector

C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station

That is the big problem from North Africa to the Middle East: quelling sectarian unrest between all kinds of religions apparently needs a dictator.

People will need to realize how the second world war was won.

The Japanese did horrible things, the SS did horrible things. In that regards, ISIL is not that much different.

Actually, ISIL make the same error as the Japanese. The Japanese thought that they could terrorise the opposing armies by acting brutally and barbaric. That did not work out for them (look what happened on Guadalcanal).

The main problem is that current opposing political forces in the Middle East will have to work together to crush ISIL.

It is on the front page of WIkipedia. There you can read up on why it took almost 30 years to recognize it as a new specied.