THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

— Allan Bloom

BIRTHDAYS:

1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer. Christus factus est, and Violin Concerto in A-Dur, MH 207, and Aria di Amore “Se s‘accende” aus “Endimione” (1776) MH 186

1760 Luigi Cherubini, Italian musical prodigy, composer (Médée; Requiem in D minor), and educator (Conservatoire de Paris, 1822-42), baptized in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Air de Neris – Extrait de Medee

1804 John Gould, British ornithologist and bird artist.

1930 Allan Bloom, American philosopher, classicist, and academician. (Closing of the American Mind)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ANOTHER GIANT STEP FOR MANKIND. SpaceX Polaris Dawn Has Successful Commercial Space Walk

ATTENTION EARTHBOUND STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 13 – 22

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.