Thought of the Day…

“Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
and you’re hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No – not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you’re passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you’re hoping.”

― Piet Hein

1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery.

1818 Henry Litolff, French composer and pianist. Scherzo

1903 Louis Leakey, Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa.

1933 Jerry Pournelle, American polymath and sci-fi author.

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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