THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― Richard Buckminster Fuller

BIRTHDAYS:

1687 Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer. Sonata in d-minor Op. 8 No. 3 for cello & bassoon, and trio sonata opus 7,1

1726 Karl Kohaut, Austrian composer and lutenist. Sonata a Liuto solo in D Major, I.Adagio

1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, French-Swiss scientist, mathematician and astronomer, 1st real proof that π is irrational.

1873 Lee De Forest, American inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube).

1900 Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (rocket engines; gas turbines; submarine propulsion systems)

1918 Katherine Johnson, American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

1920 Brant Parker, American cartoonist (co-creator of “The Wizard of Id”).

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS PRESENTS SOME VERY INTERESTING POSSIBILITIES. NASA Finds Oceans of Deep Water on Mars

HERE’S A LITTLE 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.