THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

― Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian Rococo painter

1743 Joseph Banks, English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.

1805 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (number theory)

1820 Béla Kéler, Hungarian composer, and conductor. Lustspiel Overture Op. 73

1837 Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer. “Pieza”

1859 William Strang, Scottish painter and engraver

1891 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic)

1902 Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician

1922 Gordon Tullock, American economist (public choice theory)

1923 Chuck Yeager, United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

MISCELLANY:

HEY, I CAN STILL PLAY MY GREAT GRANDFATHER’S SEVENTY EIGHTS. Sony Is Killing Entire Purchased Digital Libraries, Start Buying Physical Media Again

WAIT, WHAT ABOUT FEDEX? US military hopes one day to move supplies, maybe troops, on SpaceX’s Starship

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