From today's papers....

Tough to beat view from home office :)   Nice place to read the papers too. Some thoughts to be remembered from today's papers

 TT: "These gents (Pythagoras, Erastothenes et. al .) had big ambitions. Their working day did not (only) consist of tuning the process or optimizing the oliveoil reserves. Dad calculated today the volume of the earth. Pretty good subject for dinner table."

TT: "Intelligent person succeeds in his/her studies, gets good grades and good jobs. Our society's top positions are manned with intelligent people. We should not have any worries.
However there lies a problem. According the studies, person's whose IQ is over 120 and extremely seldom creative. Eduard De Bono speaks about 'intelligence trap' where intelligent persons fall into. For the following reasons: intelligent person gets used to being more knowledgeable in groups, he/she wants to shine, not wanting to learn from others ..."

From HS's review of Dan Brown's newest: "There is another surprise in the plot. It hits you like a modulation in a song in the Eurovision song contest, which make you excited one more time, even though after 400 pages the stuff starts to be a bit embarrassing"