“A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. During World War II, tens of thousands of people might perish in a battle, and if the public could see it at all it was in a grainy newsreel in a movie theater weeks later. During World War I a small elite could read about the progress of the conflict in the newspaper (without pictures). During the nineteenth century there was almost no access to news in a timely fashion for anyone.”

― Ray Kurzweil

1635 Robert Hooke, English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect.

1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer. Rondeau Solo Violin, and “Per la gloria d’adorarvi” da Ópera “Griselda”, and Ombra mai fu

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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