December 7, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

BIRTHDAYS:

1598 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.

1637 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer. Partita sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna, and Toccata con lo scherzo del cucco, and Era risorta invano

1805 Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French watchmaker, magician and illusionist, widely recognized as the father of the modern style of conjuring.

1863 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana). Cavalleria rusticana – Intermezzo

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery: New Brain Stimulation Restores Movement

I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. Uranium from Seawater is Getting Cheaper than Mined Uranium

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 6 – 15

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