THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

BIRTHDAYS:

1715 Girolamo Abos, Maltese composer. Pelopide

1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert,  French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.

1720 Charles-Antoine Campion, Italian composer. Sonata pastorale

1922 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe

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

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