“the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

Birthdays:

1852 Carl Reinecke, German composer, conductor, and pianist. Song, Trio for horn, oboe, and piano (21:53)

1912 Alan Turing, English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

1948 Clarence Thomas, American jurist who serves as the senior associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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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