December 22, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Relativity applies to physics, not to ethics”

— Albert Einstein

BIRTHDAYS:

1400 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor.

1702 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer

1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, born in Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen, Holy Roman Empire. Quartet G dur allegro moderato.

1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer known primarily for his operas. O mio babbino caro, and Tu che di gel sei cinta, and Che gelida manina, and Sì, mi chiamano Mimi, and Recondita armonia, and E lucevan le stelle

1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (Richard Corey)

1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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SUGGESTED READING FOR 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