THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Are your minds working to complain? Or, are your minds working to solve the problem.”

— Hotep Jesus

BIRTHDAYS:

1500 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus).

1585 Jan Brożek, physician, astronomer, and the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus.

1636 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French man of letters of the Grand Siècle. Poet , translator, polemicist and literary theorist.

1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, born in Possagno, Republic of Venice.

1849 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator (Chase School, now known as the Parsons School of Design)

1871 Alexander Spendiaryan, Armenian-Soviet conductor and composer. Erevan etudes. (10:46)

1880 Alfred Wegener, German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.

1911 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams)

1935 Charles Koch, American billionaire businessman.

MISCELLANEOUS:

DOES NASA OVERSEE THE NATIONAL DEBT TOO. The International Space Station should be evacuated IMMEDIATELY: Expert warns leaving it too late ‘could lead to a disaster that would kill not only the astronauts, but also NASA’s reputation’

SCIENCE. Cold extremes do in fact decrease under global warming.

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.”