November 9, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

— Carl Sagan

BIRTHDAYS:

1664 Johann Speth, German composer and organist, born in Speinshart, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Partite diverse sopra l’aria detta la Todesca

1801 Gail Borden, American inventor and manufacturing pioneer.

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet and playwright.

1832 Émile Gaboriau, French writer (father of the French detective novels).

1914 Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born American actress and inventor.

1934 Carl Sagan, American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MORE STARS TO GO WITH THE STRIPES. Pro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red State

IN ALL FAIRNESS, THAT WAS BACK WHEN TRUMP WAS STILL HITLER. EXCLUSIVE: FEMA Official Ordered Relief Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Signs

THE FIRST AMENDMENT DOES NOT GUARANTEE IMMUNITY FROM DEFAMATION LAWSUITS. Grocers ‘outraged’ after Whoopi Goldberg calls them ‘pigs’ over food inflation on ‘The View’

HARBOR FREIGHT HERE I COME. Off-the-shelf thermoelectric generators can upgrade CO₂ into useful chemicals, which could aid Mars colonization

SUGGESTED READING FOR FUTURE LOCKDOWNS:

PUBLISHED IN 2006: Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza