THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”

— Karl Popper

BIRTHDAYS:
1599 Francesco Borromini, Italian sculptor and architect.

1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer. Suites from Les Indes galantes – Entrée les Sauvages, and Chaconne from Les Indes Galantes, and Cinquième Concert, La Cupis

1796 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor.

1798 Henri Scheffer, Dutch painter.

1930 Shel Silverstein, American writer and cartoonist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IS IT PAST TIME TO DEFUND THE FAA? The window to make Earth life multiplanetary is open for the first time in 4.5 billion years.

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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.