“Words… They’re innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they’re no good any more… I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”

― Tom Stoppard

Birthdays:

1550 Jakob Handl, late-Renaissance composer. Canite tuba in Sion.

1643 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer. Sinfonia n. 9, and ‘Da chi spero’ from Susanna.

1854 Leoš Janáček, Czech composer. Glagolitic Mass (45:30)

1883 Franz Kafka, Czech author.

1937 Tom Stoppard, Playwright and Screenwriter.

1947 Dave Barry, American humorist and author.

1971 Julian Assange, Whistleblower and Founder of Wikileaks.

MISCELLANY:

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED RESEARCH PLAN AND AN INITIAL RESEARCH GOVERNANCE
FRAMEWORK RELATED TO SOLAR RADIATION MODIFICATION

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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