THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

― Robert G. Ingersoll

BIRTHDAYS:

1737 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor.

1833 Robert G. Ingersoll, American writer, orator and agnostic.

1894 Wilhelm Grosz, Austrian pianist, conductor, classical composer (Afrika Songs), and popular songwriter (“Red Sails in the Sunset”; “Isle of Capri”). Great Times

1917 Dik Browne, American cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible)

1921 Alex Haley, American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

1946 Marilyn Vos Savant, writer/world’s highest IQ (228)

1950 Steve Wozniak, American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor.

1967 Joe Rogan, American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host.

MISCELLANY:

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.