THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“What is the human purpose in society? It is to exchange one good for another good more desired. Putting it on a personal basis, it is a matter of benefiting yourself by getting something you desire from another person who, at the same time, benefits himself by getting something that he desires from you. The object of such contacts is the peaceful exchange of benefits, mutual aid, co-operation – for each person’s gain. The incalculable sum of all these meetings is human society, which is simply all the individual human actions that express the brotherhood of man.”

— Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress

BIRTHDAYS:

1574 John Wilbye, English madrigal composer. Draw on, Sweet Night, and Weep, weep, mine eyes

1621 Georg Neumark, German composer and poet, born in Langensalza, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, and If You But Trust in God to Guide You

1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist, born in Bologna, Papal States. Chaconne

1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.

1792 John Herschel, English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.

1837 Henry Draper, American medical doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography.

1849 Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science, developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.

1875 Maurice Ravel, French composer, pianist and conductor. La Valse

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 7–16

ATTENTION LUNAR COLONISTS. Blue Ghost Lands on the Moon

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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