THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”

― Alexander Fleming

BIRTHDAYS:

1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery

1886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, American inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)

1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan was a global leader of the green revolution.

1742 Nathanael Greene, American military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

1868 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor. A Hebrew Melody for Cello, Harp and Strings

1903 Louis Leakey, Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.

1933 Jerry Pournelle, American polymath and sci-fi author

MISCELLANY:

LET ME SEE IF I’VE GOT THIS STRAIGHT: GUILTY, EVEN IF PROVEN INNOCENT? Empower Oversight: Homeland Security Has Done Nothing to Stop Abuse of Quiet Skies Surveillance Program

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RECOMMENDED READING 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.