THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Cappritio sopra otte figure, and Ciaconna for 2 violins & continuo, and Sonata Scalabrina

1745 Alessandro Volta, Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

1849 Armand Peugeot, French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the man who transformed Peugeot into a manufacturer of bicycles and, later, of automobiles.

1860 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor.

1871 Harry Brearley, English inventor of stainless steel.

1883 Níkos Kazantzákis, prominent Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ).

MISCELLANEOUS:

BRIAN PUT xAI GROK 3 TO GOOD USE. Analyzing History and Getting to a Better Economic Future

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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