Thought for the Day:

“Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of ‘safe space’ from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn’t true – and we shouldn’t allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.”

― Kat Timpf

Birthdays:

1554 Paolo Bellasio, composer. Quel tristarel d’amore

1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist.

1660 Andreas Schlüter, sculptor.

1726 Francis Cotes, painter.

1764 Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor.

1799 Honoré de Balzac, Novelist.

1806 John Stuart Mill, philosopher, and political economist.

1851 Emile Berliner, inventor.

1904 Margery Allingham, novelist.

1913 Bill Hewlett, Electrical Engineer and Businessman.

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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