THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

— Albert Einstein, attributed

BIRTHDAYS:

1559 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter and architect.

1655 Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist. Stabat Mater (extraits), and Recueil d’airs sérieux et à boire

1688 Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor and carver of the Baroque era

1812 Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist.

1829 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter.

1858 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor.

1880 H. L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

1897 Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

1913 Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

1952 Neil Peart, Canadian rock drummer and lyricist (Rush)

MISCELLANEOUS:

THEY DID IT! SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic 1st private spacewalk in orbit (video)

VERY INTERESTING. China-US team creates nano-plant drug for deadliest brain cancer

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.