THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

BIRTHDAYS:

1556 Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor, born in Montopiaoli Val d’Arno, Duchy of Florence.

1607 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver

1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

1739 Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German princess and composer. Divertimento

1804 Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist.

1873 Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), physicist and historian of science.

1904 Moss Hart, American playwright, librettist, and theater director.

MISCELLANEOUS:

BUT IS GOOD MENTAL HEALTH RACIST? Harvard Doctor Confirms that Human ‘Brains Need Meat’

I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING. Scientists Revived a Pig’s Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died

WELL, CARL SAGAN DID SAY “WE ARE MADE OF STAR-STUFF.” Did Life Begin in Space? The Surprising Discovery of a Crucial Sugar Acid

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.”