THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Somehow, people always forget that it’s much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”

― Garry Kasparov

BIRTHDAYS:

1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer. Praeludium et Fugue in G LV58

1765 Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat

1771 Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology.

1774 Gaspare Spontini, Italian opera composer and conductor. “La Vestale” Overture

1778 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian piano virtuoso and composer. Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer

1797 Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth’s history.

1805 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer. Charakterstücke aus “Das Jahr”, and Melodie Op. 4 No. 2

1840 Claude Monet, French painter and founder of impressionist painting

1891 Frederick Banting, Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.

1907 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (including Pippi Longstocking)

1947 P. J. O’Rourke, American political satirist and journalist.

MISCELLANY:

“WE WANT TO MAKE IT CHEAP AND EASY TO GET ANYWHERE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM”. SpaceX founding employee successfully moves from rockets to in-space propulsion

FRIDAY. Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Be Approved for Friday Starship Launch

I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING. Programmed DNA nanorobots to shrink cancer tumors by cutting off their blood supply

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

RELATED: Collateral Global