THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

— Sir Thomas More

BIRTHDAYS:

1577 Robert Burton, British writer and Anglican clergyman (The Anatomy of Melancholy)

1586 Jacob Praetorius, German Baroque organist, composer, and pedagogue. Was kann uns kommen an für Not, and Herr Gott, dich loben wir [Te Deum]

1612 Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist.

1807 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist.

1828 Jules Verne, French novelist, poet and playwright.

1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements.

1906 Chester F. Carlson, American inventor (photocopying)

MISCELLANEOUS:

LET’S HOPE THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISION (OR THE GOVERNOR) DOESN’T TRY TO RUIN THIS TOO. Tesla is Hiring Engineers and Managers to Start Teslabot Mass Production

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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