THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”

— Freeman Dyson

BIRTHDAYS:

1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine.

1866 Erik Satie, French composer. Gymnopedie no. 1, 2 & 3, and Gnossienne no. 1

1940 Alan Kay, American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 16 – 25

FURTHER EVIDENCE WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Musk Predicts Tens of Billions of Humanoid Robots and ASAP Terawatt in XAI AI Data Center

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)