THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

BIRTHDAYS:

1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker.

1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer. Corant & Var. – ‘fitt for the Manicorde’ n. 10-10b, and Sonata L’Inconnue, for flute and continuo

1688 Alexander Pope, English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (Coriolis effect)

1860 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924)

1873 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and inventor of electroencephalography (EEG)

1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry.

1919 John Alexander Hopps, Canadian scientist (co-developer of the first artificial pace-maker)

1921 Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, husband to Yelena Bonnerand, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

MISCELLANY:

I WAS HOMESCHOOLED IN CALIFORNIA WHEN IT WAS ILLEGAL. Hope for Homeschoolers

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.