THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”

― Galileo

BIRTHDAYS:

1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer. Io parto e nel partire

1564 Galileo, Italian polymath.

1705 Charles-André Van Loo, French Rococo painter.

1809 Cyrus McCormick, American inventor and businessman.

1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman and jeweler.

1820 Susan B. Anthony, American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement.

1861 Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher.

1874 Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

1884 Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American inventor, athlete, magician, toy-maker and businessman.

1923 Yelena Bonner, Russian dissident and human rights activist.

1934 Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist who invented several programming languages, including Pascal.

MISCELLANY:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. Galileo: His Science and His Significance for the Future of Man

ON GALILEO’S BIRTHDAY. SpaceX launches private lunar lander on eight-day journey to the moon

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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