December 26, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1633 Charles Emmanuel Biset, Flemish painter.

1687 Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer, born in Cadolzburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Violin Concerto in D major JunP I.7, and first movement of the solo sonata for violin

1731 Anthony Ziesenis, Dutch architect and sculptor

1791 Charles Babbage, English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who is best known for his pioneering work in the development of early computing devices. He is often regarded as the “father of the computer” for his designs of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine, two early mechanical computing machines that laid the groundwork for modern computing.

1926 Ali Javan, Iranian American physicist and inventor (Helium-Neon Laser)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ALIEN WORLD. New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter — and could make one of the gas giant’s massive bands disappear

THE FIRST BOOK ON ECONOMICS I EVER READ WAS “ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSOON” BY HAZLITT. 5 Great Economics Books in 2024.

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