THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

― Dorothy Parker

BIRTHDAYS:

1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer. Quatrième suite, Op. 1, and Cinquième suite in E minor

1862 Claude Debussy, French composer. Golliwog’s Cakewalk, and Rêverie, and Arabesque No. 1, and Petite suite (15:10), and Suite bergamasque (18:48)

1893 Dorothy Parker, American poet and writer of fiction.

1896 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929.

1920 Ray Bradbury, American author (Fahrenheit 451)

1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist.

MISCELLANY:

EXCITING. Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission ready for launch

JUPITER 2, PLEASE CONTACT MISSION CONTROL. Starliner Stranded in Space? NASA Answers FAQs on Astronauts’ Return Status

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING, PROBABLY. SNOWING IN THE SIERRA.

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.