THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

BIRTHDAYS:

1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. Un portugués y un gallego

1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution.

1866 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-American inventor and radio pioneer – reputedly broadcast 1st program of voice and music

1903 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (Nobel Prize 1951 for work building earliest particle accelerator)

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

1931 Riccardo Giacconi, Italian American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2002 for X-ray astronomy.

1950 David Brin, American sci-fi author (The Postman)

MISCELLANEOUS:

FEMA HAS A CHECKERED PAST: SHOULD PROBABLY STEER CLEAR OF THEM. “FEMA, and all these other people there, are talking, thinking, ‘No, not Samaritan’s Purse.’”

PREDATORS BEWARE. Israel Takes the Gloves Off

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.