Thought for the Day:

“Even as our world is being daily transformed by breathtaking innovations in science and technology, many people continue to imagine that math and science are mostly a matter of memorizing formulas to get “the right answer.” Even engineering, which is in fact the process of creating something from scratch or putting things together in novel and non-self-evident ways, is perplexingly viewed as a mechanical or rote subject. This viewpoint, frankly, could only be held by people who never truly learned math or science, who are stubbornly installed on one side of the so-called Two Culture divide. The truth is that anything significant that happens in math, science, or engineering is the result of heightened intuition and creativity. This is art by another name, and it’s something that tests are not very good at identifying or measuring. The skills and knowledge that tests can measure are merely warm-up exercises.”

― Salman Khan

Birthdays:

1464 Robert Fayrfax: Benedicite!

1564 William Shakespeare

1623 Jan Adam Reincken: Fuga in g

1649 Andreas Kneller: Partita “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland”

1891 Sergei Prokofiev: Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet — Ball Scene

1895 Ngaio Marsh

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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