October 31, 2023

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”

― Larry Niven

BIRTHDAYS:

1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem / Alleluya,

1632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

1638 Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter

1795 John Keats, English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

1920 Dick Francis, British jockey and detective writer

1941 Dan Alderson, American scientist (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and sci-fi fandom figure

MISCELLANY:

POISED TO UPSET SOME APPLE CARTS? Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

Yes, the following is the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

RELATED: Collateral Global

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