THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our own minds at play.”

― Tobias Dantzig

BIRTHDAYS:

1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German Romantic painter.

1806 Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, born in Nienstädten, Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. sonata in B-flat major (I)

1844 Harriet Williams Russell Strong, American inventor, agricultural entrepreneur (created dams and reservoirs in California).

1866 Francesco Cilea, Italian orchestral and opera composer born in Palmi, Calabria, Kingdom of Italy. Aria from Adriana Lecouvreur, and Princess de Bouillon, ”Acerba volutta”

1888 Raymond Chandler, American-British mystery novelist and screenwriter (Farewell My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; The Big Sleep)

1923 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American sci-fi writer

MISCELLANY:

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READ THESE BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

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.