THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1666 Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer. Concerto grosso No. 4 in E Minor

1687 Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer. Concerto Grosso “La Follia”

1848 Edwin Blashfield, American painter.

1869 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs).

1890 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter (Metropolis).

1901 Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

1901 Werner Heisenberg, German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II (read the whole article).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ELON’S DONE IT. SpaceX Starlink Is Ready to Provide Global Direct to Cell Service

ELON IS GOING TO NEED THE COMPUTING POWER. xAI Expanding to Over 1 Million GPUs

SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

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

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

RELOCATION. The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

RELATED. Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings