THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

— Thomas B. Macaulay

BIRTHDAYS:

1576 Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer of madrigals. Thule, the Period of Cosmography + The Andalusian Merchant, and O Lord Arise, and Most Mighty and All-Knowing Lord

1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet (Ivy), historian (The History of England), and politician (British India education reform).

1825 Johann Baptist Strauss Jr., Austrian composer (Waltz King). The Blue Danube Waltz

1838 Georges Bizet, French composer of the Romantic era. “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”

MISCELLANEOUS:

ELON DOES IT AGAIN. NASA’s Crew-8 returns to Earth, successfully splashing down into Gulf

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.”