THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

― Thomas More

BIRTHDAYS:

1577 Robert Burton, British writer and Anglican clergyman (The Anatomy of Melancholy)

1586 Jacob Praetorius, German Baroque organist, composer, and pedagogue. Herr Gott, dich loben wir [Te Deum]

1612 Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist.

1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician.

1819 John Ruskin, English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

1828 Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright.

1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements.

1906 Chester F. Carlson, American inventor (photocopy)

MISCELLANY:

CARL SAGAN, CALL YOUR OFFICE. Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts

ATTENTION SURFERS. Liquid Ocean World’s in the Solar System

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