Thought for the Day:

“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!”

― Omar Khayyam

Birthdays:

1048 Omar Khayyám, mathematician, astronomer, poet, and philosopher

1830 Károly Goldmark, composer. Violin Concerto, Op. 28 (32:14)

1872 Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, logician, and intellectual

1875 Guido Alberto Fano, composer. O falce di luna

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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