Thought for the Day:

“Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.”

― Petr Beckmann

Birthdays:

1581 Frans Francken the Younger

1606 Lorenzo Lippi

1856 Sigmund Freud

1858 Georges Hüe: Fantasy for flute and orchestra, and Feuillet d’album

1883 José Ortega y Gasset

1929 John P. Allen

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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