THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.”

— John Cleese

BIRTHDAYS:

1782 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso, and composer. Cantabile Op. 17, and La Campanella (9:16)

1811 Isaac Singer, American inventor, actor, and businessman.

1872 Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette).

1914 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer.

1931 Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer and activist, born in Kafr Tahla, Egypt.

1939 John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.

1947 Terry Anderson, American journalist, US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)

1952 Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MEANWHILE THINGS HAVE RETURNED TO NORMAL: FOUR HOURS OF ELECTRICITY A DAY. ‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis

WORLD WARS DON’T ALWAYS TURN OUT WELL.
Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world: James Bovard

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, October 25 – November 3

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.”