THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.”

— Piet Hein, “Small Things and Great”

BIRTHDAYS:

1048 Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician (cubic equations), astronomer (Jalali calendar, basis of the Persian calendar), poet (quatrains), and philosopher, born in Nishapur, Khorasan.

1830 (Károly) “Karl” Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer. Air

1864 Jan P. Veth, Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer and art historian

1875 Guido Alberto Fano, Italian composer and pianist, born in Padua, Kingdom of Italy. “O falce di luna” From Tre canti (unpublished manuscript, 1945), and Sonata Op 38

1872 Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ONCE AGAIN REALITY REARS IT’S UGLY HEAD. A New IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition’

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)