THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”

― Erich fromm

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Charles Le Brun, French classical painter who helped establish the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture

1709 Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor.

1786 Wilhelm Grimm, German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.

1842 Arrigo Boito, Itlaian opera composer. Prologue of Mefistofele – Introduction and Chorus

1836 Winslow Homer, American painter.

1955 Steve Jobs, American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology giant Apple Inc.

MISCELLANY:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, February 23 – March 3

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS! Surface to Air Missiles Are Too Slow and Weak To Catch SpaceX 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

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