THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”

— John Stuart Mill

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor, baptized in Free Imperial City of Hamburg.

1759 Gervais-François Couperin, French organist and composer. Andante (from Sonata Op.1 nº1), and Récit de Hautboi

1813 Richard Wagner, German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, “music dramas”). Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod, and die meistersinger von nürnberg prelude, and Die Walküre Act 3 opening Ride of the Valkyries

1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WANT ONE. Tesla Optimus Video Showing Humanoid Bot Taking Out Garbage, Cooking and Cleaning

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)