THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…”

— Leo Tolstoy

BIRTHDAYS:

1721 Peyton Randolph, a Founding Father of the United States.

1892 Arthur Compton, US physicist (1927 Nobel Prize for Physics for Compton Effect)

1929 Paul Terasaki, American scientist, invented tissue typing for organ transplants and founded first kidney transplant registry.

1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS A HISTORIC DAY. SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn astronauts to attempt world’s 1st-ever private spacewalk (video)

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.