THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”

— Allan Bloom

BIRTHDAYS:

1686 Silvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist. Passacaglia in D major, and Prelude & Allemande C-dur

1860 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass)

1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer. Toward the Unknown Region (12:06)

1935 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor. “Nessun dorma” from Turandot

MISCELLANEOUS:

IS IT TIME FOR SPACEX TO RELOCATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY? The Tug of War Over SpaceX Launching the Biggest Rocket Ever

IS IT TIME FOR ME TO RELOCATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY? U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

THIS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE. WILL FURTHER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WILL BE OUTLAWED IN THE UNITED STATES? Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Solving Protein Folding in Minutes With AI

GOOD JOB DR. PHIL. Follow up with Sue.

OH TO BE EIGHTEEN AGAIN. Think you’re always right? Science shows why you may be wrong

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.