February 1, 2025

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Enter into the Royal Exchange of London, a place more respectable than many courts, in which deputies from all nations assemble for the advantage of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian bargain with one another as if they were of the same religion, and bestow the name of infidel on bankrupts only… Was there in London but one religion, despotism might be apprehended; if two only, they would seek to cut each other’s throats; but as there are at least thirty, they live together in peace and happiness.”

— Voltaire

BIRTHDAYS:

1550 John Napier, Scottish landowner known as a mathematician (invented logarithms), physicist, and astronomer.

1669 Miguel Lopez, Spanish composer and organist. Oye enamorado

1673 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer. Concerto in re minore per oboe e orchestra

1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian dissident, author of science fiction (We), philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.

1916 Gordon Hobday, English scientist (developed penicillin with Alexander Fleming, worked on Ibuprofen)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 31 – February 9

COVID 19 LOCKDOWNS – REQUIRED READING.

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

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration