“The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

Birthdays:

1581 Johann Staden, German baroque composer who established the Nuremberg School. Toccata

1636 Daniel Speer, German composer and writer of the Baroque. Aria, Gavotte, Courante. Pièces jouées au clavicorde, and Sonata n°1 para tres Trombones

1714 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer. Suite from Orphée et Eurydice.

1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet.

1819 Thomas Anderson, 19th-century Scottish chemist.

1900 Tyrone Guthrie, British actor, producer, writer and director.

1932 Dave Thomas, American businessman who founded Wendy’s Restaurants.

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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