THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“For youth can no more live without some kind of hero than it can without its daily supply of fresh air and vitamins.”

― Hendrik Willem van Loon

BIRTHDAYS:

1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music composer. Missa de Carnaval e mottetti – parte I

1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter.

1875 Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.

1882 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and writer.

1886 Hugh Lofting, English writer and illustrator (Dr. Doolittle)

1919 Nathaniel Rochester, American computer scientist who made significant contributions to the early development of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer programming.

MISCELLANY:

THE FUTURE IS HERE. Human Worker Beside SpaceX Starship

MR. MOORE, CALL YOUR OFFICE. Elon and Tesla Will Inevitably Transition to All-in Focus on Teslabot

WHEN DOES HE SLEEP? Elon Musk SpaceX Plans Moonbase, Mars City and Terraformed Mars

THAT’S A LOW BAR THESE LAST FEW YEARS. OpenAI GPT 4.5 In Days Will Go Beyond Human Experts and More AI Predictions for 2024

ATTENTION STAR GAZERS: This Week’s Sky At a Glance, January 12 – 21

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