THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able to convince him that he has a perfect right to do so. It must not depend upon mere force; the slave must know no Higher Law than his master’s will. The whole relationship must not only demonstrate, to his mind, its necessity, but its absolute rightfulness.”

― Frederick Douglass

BIRTHDAYS:

1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian Renaissance composer and singer. “Io mi son giovinetta” for Harpsichord

1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer. L’Armonia, and Léa Desandre et Thomas Dunford

1778 Fernando Sor, Spanish classical guitarist, and composer. Etude in Bm, and Fantaisie Élégiaque op. 59

1817 Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

1819 Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.

1867 Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor and industrialist (Toyota Industries)

1917 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.

1948 Teller, American magician.

MISCELLANY:

IT NEED NOT BE. Intellectuals for Sale

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