THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.”

― H.G. Wells

BIRTHDAYS:

1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer. Fa Una Canzona, and Tra verdi campi

1841 Frédéric Bazille, French painter

1843 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter and etcher

1886 Joyce Kilmer, American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913)

1896 Ira Gershwin, American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin

1918 Harold Horace Hopkins, British physicist and inventor (Endoscope)

MISCELLANY:

MARK STEYN WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS IN 2006. Does Kim Jong Un Read Nextbigfuture?

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ARE YOU STILL HERE? Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science

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

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