THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.”

― Hannah Arendt

BIRTHDAYS:

1574 John Wilbye, English madrigal composer. Draw on, Sweet Night, and Lady, Your Words do Spite Me, and Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers, and Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis

1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist. Chaconne

1765 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.

1792 John Herschel, English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint.

1807 Franz Graf von Pocci, German founding director of the Munich Marionette Theatre (Punch and Judy), poet, and illustrator of children’s literature.

1846 Whitcomb Judson, American inventor (zipper)

1849 Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.

1875 Maurice Ravel, French composer, pianist and conductor. La Valse, and L’Enfant et les sortilèges (excerpt), and Daphnis and Chloe – Royal Ballet (part 1 of 9)

1878 Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter.

1922 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician.

MISCELLANY:

FIRST PRINCIPLES. Elon Says Grok AI Acid Test Would Be Finding the Extremely Unpopular But Right Answers

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