”Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

BIRTHDAYS:

1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, baptized in Marino, Papal States. Plorate Filii Israel, and Così volete, così sarà

1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), born in Spalato, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire. Light Cavalry Overture

1852 George Clausen, English painter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 18 – 27

ALIENS. 99.7% Likely That Exoplanet K2-18B is an Ocean Planet Teeming With Life

GOOD TO KNOW. Expert Jon Twigge and Brian Wang on SURVIVING A FASTER and HARDER AI Future, Part 1

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)