THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

BIRTHDAYS:

1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

1802 Lydia Maria Child, American author, journalist and abolitionist.

1810 Loïsa Puget, French opera and salon song composer. À la grâce de Dieu, and le postillon de Séville

1839 Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science.

1847 Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman.

1898 Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.

1953 David Walt, American chemist and inventor. He pioneered the use of microwell arrays for single-molecule detection and genetic measurements, which has revolutionized the process of genetic and proteomic analysis, enabling the cost of DNA sequencing and genotyping to plummet nearly a millionfold in the last decade.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WISH ROBERT HEINLEIN WERE ALIVE TO SEE THIS. Crater-diving hopper ‘Gracie’ will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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