THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Keep in mind that it is hubris to think that we know how to save the Earth: our planet looks after itself. All we can do is try to save ourselves.”

― James Lovelock

BIRTHDAYS:

1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, born and baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic

1824 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire. Marghweita: “Con ciò sia che” – Podesta’s second Aria

1866 Beatrix Potter, English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.

1902 Karl Popper, Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

1907 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware).

1915 Charles Hard Townes, American Physicist and inventor (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle).

MISCELLANY:

AND WOMEN WEREN’T ALLOWED TO COMPETE. The Ancient (and very Naked) Olympics

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.