THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely. – Pournelle’s law of Bureaucracy.”

― Jerry Pournelle

BIRTHDAYS:

1571 John Ward, English composer. If heav’n’s just wrath, and Fantasia a5 No1, and Fantasia à 5, Dolce languir, Come Sable Night

1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British portrait and court painter.

1823 Théodule-Augustin Ribot, French realist painter

1857 Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist. Noturno Opus 165, and Les Feux de la Saint Jean op. 44, and Trio avec piano n°2 en la mineur op. 34 – I. Allegro moderato

1898 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor.

1901 Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron – Nobel 1939)

1902 Paul Dirac, English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics.

MISCELLANY:

VERY INTERESTING. Gene Editing and Radical Life Extension

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.