THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

BIRTHDAYS:

1557 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (Communion of St. Jerome)

1761 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian opera composer. The song of Orfeo from “Orfeo”

1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor.

1884 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American inventor and sci-fi writer.

1888 T. E. Lawrence, British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer best known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.

1905 Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code).

MISCELLANY:

THIS IS WHAT COURAGE LOOKS LIKE. The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out

YAWN. Boring Tunnel From Vegas Strip to Airport

SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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.