THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“People too weak to follow their own dreams will always try to discourage yours.”

— Zuby

BIRTHDAYS:

1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian cellist and opera composer (Astianatte), born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Ombra mai fu, and “Sempre piango / Sempre rido, e dir non so” (duetto)

1635 Robert Hooke, English polymath who was active as a physicist (“natural philosopher”), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed.

1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902).

1923 Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor, (held more than 600 patents).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, July 18 – 27

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 A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)