THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

— Samuel Johnson

BIRTHDAYS:

1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer, composer (La liberazione di Ruggiero – widely believed to be oldest opera from a female composer), and teacher, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Chi desia, and Lasciatemi qui solo

1636 Pietro Sanmartini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata in F

1684 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer and musicologist, born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata in C

1709 Samuel Johnson, English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

1786 Justinus Kerner, German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism).

1907 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951)

1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian American cognitive psychologist and author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I’M LAUGHING TOO HARD TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. ARREST ME: I Just Broke Election Law in California With this AI Image

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.