THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Intellectual freedom is essential — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”

— Andrei Sakharov

BIRTHDAYS:

1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker (Adam and Eve)

1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, Italian organist and composer, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Toccata, and Sonata III

1688 Alexander Pope, English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

1860 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram.

1872 Henry E. Warren, American inventor (Telechon electric clock).

1873 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and inventor of electroencephalography (EEG)

1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry.

1921 Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

MISCELLANEOUS:

COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS FROM LOS ANGELES TO TOKYO IN UNDER TWO HOURS? First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine

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)