THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

― George Bernard Shaw

BIRTHDAYS:

1668 Jean Gilles, French composer. Requiem, and Messe des morts

1804 George Childress, lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.

1824 Wilkie Collins, English writer

1836 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch-British painter

1923 Joseph Weizenbaum, German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT.

1942 Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.

MISCELLANY:

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Iranian woman whipped 74 times for refusing to wear hijab

THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING. ULA’s Vulcan rocket launches private US moon lander, 1st since Apollo, and human remains in debut flight

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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