Thought for the Day:

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

― C.S. Lewis

Birthdays:

1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Etude no 3 for viola

1812 Edward Lear

1820 Florence Nightingale

1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti

1842 Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais for Violin and Piano

1845 Gabriel Fauré: Élégie Op. 24, and Pavane, Op. 50

1855 Anatoly Lyadov: Prelude From Three Pieces Op.57 N. 1

1910 Dorothy Hodgkin

1921 Farley Mowat

1924 Alexander Esenin-Volpin

1938 Andrei Amalrik

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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