THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”

― Grace Murray Hopper

BIRTHDAYS:

1508 Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker

1608 John Milton, Poet and political writer.

1837 Émile Waldteufel, French pianist and composer. Les Patineurs The Skaters Op. 183

1886 Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry.

1906 Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming.

MISCELLANY:

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REFUELING IN SPACE. SpaceX May Test Propellant Transfer During the Next Starship Launch

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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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