THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want – not only you, your whole family and all people like you”

— Ai Weiwei

BIRTHDAYS:

1633 Geminiano Montanari, Italian physicist and astronomer known for discovering that Algol is a variable star, born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio.

1653 Georg Muffat, baroque composer, born in Megève, Duchy of Savoy. Ciacona in G, and Toccata Septima, and Sonata in G (nr 5)

1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist.

1804 Mikhail Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russian composer (Kamarinskaya; Ruslan and Ludmilla), born in Novospasskoye, Smolensk, Russian Empire. Ruslan and Ludmila – Overture, and Waltz-Fantasia

1957 Jeff Hawkins, American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing — where he co-created the PalmPilot and Treo — and Handspring.

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE. How to Have an Accurate Assessment of Yourself

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)