Thought for the Day:

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

Birthdays:

1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder): Chaconne, and Sonata op.2 Nr.1 in e minor – 1.mov – Adagio

1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens

1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise

1866 Léon Bakst

1873 Carl Eldh

1898 Ariel Durant

1902 Joachim Prinz

1969 John Scalzi

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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