THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

― Marcus Aurelius

BIRTHDAYS:

1653 Georg Muffat, baroque composer. Passacaglia, and Concerto grosso XII “Propitia Sydera”, Grave – Ciacona, and Sonata II in G Minor, Grave & Allegro

1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, often described as the “father of thermodynamics”.

1755 Frederigo Fiorillo, Italian violist, mandolinist, and composer. Caprice No. 22 for Violin Solo

1907 Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer air officer and inventor of the turbojet engine

1957 Jeffrey Hawkins, American businessman, neuroscientist and engineer.

MISCELLANY:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 31 – June 9

SOME THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.