THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Journalism is printing what someone else doesn’t want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

― George Orwell

BIRTHDAYS:

1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter.

1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat’s Last Theorem)

1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. “Alto Giove”, and “Placida surge aurora”

1720 Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French engraver and painter.

1786 Davy Crockett, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician.

1882 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced Hollywood’s first major-motion picture (The Squaw Man)

1903 Abram Chasins, American composer. Prelude in E minor, Op.10 No.3, and Rush Hour in Hong Kong, and Waltz of the Rainbow

1936 Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer (MIT), and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2016, for her work with NASA’s Apollo missions)

1944 Larry Ellison, American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded software company Oracle Corporation.

MISCELLANY:

INTERESTING. Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain’s waste removal system

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.