THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

BIRTHDAYS:

1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. Pachelbel Canon in D Major, and Toccata in e minor

1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer. Evening blessing & dream pantomime (Hansel and Gretel)

1858 Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian scientist and inventor of the gas mantle and metal filament light bulb,

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

1877 Francis William Aston, British chemist and physicist who won a Nobel laureate for his work with isotopes and the whole number rule.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 30 – September 8

HERE’S 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.