THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

BIRTHDAYS:

1800 Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist who developed the dynamo principle.

1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter, founded National Gallery of Athens.

1870 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor.

1872 George Washington Pierce, American physicist who pioneered electrical communication (crystal oscillator circuit)

1875 Reinhold Glière, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire. Intermezzo, Op.9, No.1 for Double Bass & Piano

1895 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and inventor with 91 patents, including musical instruments (Hammond organ; Novachord synthesizer)

1903 Alan Paton, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

COVID 19 LOCKDOWNS – REQUIRED READING.

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

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