THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”

— Eric Hoffer

BIRTHDAYS:

1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure).

1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian military officer who played a leading role in the American Revolutionary War by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force.

1743 Marquis de Condorcet, Prussian military officer who played a leading role in the American Revolutionary War by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force.

1783 Samuel Prout, British water color painter.

1819 Leon Foucault, French physicist whose pendulum proved that the Earth rotates.

1821 Arthur Saint-Leon, French composer and dancer. La source

1901 Francis Chichester, British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.

1947 Jeff MacNelly, American Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist (Shoe).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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.