THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”

— Friedrich von Hayek

BIRTHDAYS:

1435 Andrea Della Robbia, Italian sculptor, nephew of Luca.

1632 Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.

1656 Nicolas de Largillière, French painter.

1792 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, German composer and flutist, born in Münster, Prince-Bishopric of Münster Holy Roman Empire. 2 Nokturny op. 19

1891 James Chadwick, English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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SOMETHING FOR YOUR TOOL BELT. The Role of VPNs in Safeguarding Data in the Era of Big Data and Cloud Computing

SOME LIGHT READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

RECENTLY PUBLISHED (2006). Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

WHAT IF ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL?: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE (YES, THAT NUREMBERG): Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

“The Nuremberg Military Tribunal’s decision in the case of the United States v Karl Brandt et al. includes what is now called the Nuremberg Code, a ten point statement delimiting permissible medical experimentation on human subjects.”