THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”

— Cicero

BIRTHDAYS:

356 BC Alexander III of Macedon, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

1600 Simon Ives, English organist, lyra-violist, and court composer (King Charles I). Duo for two viols, and Chicona, and Music Thou Queen of Souls

1822 Gregor Mendel, Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.

1924 Robert D. Maurer, American scientist and co-inventor of optical fiber.

1947 Gerd Binnig, German physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for co-inventing scanning tunneling microscope.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION AI FANS. OpenAI ChatGPT Agent for Tool Use, Shopping and Other Activity

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)