THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life.”

― Michel de Montaigne

BIRTHDAYS:

1637 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting)

1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter

1853 Howard Pyle, American illustrator, painter and author

1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, cellist, guitarist, and conductor. Etude No 1, and Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and Etudes 7 & 8, and Prelude No. 1, and Mazurka-Chôro

1910 Momofuku Ando, Inventor of Instant Noodles.

1934 Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist notable for his work on hedonic psychology, psychology of judgment and decision-making. He is also known for his work in behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith).

1955 Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller.

1964 Yoshua Bengio, Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.

MISCELLANY:

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