THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

— Richard P. Feynman

BIRTHDAYS:

1783 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.

1802 Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright.

1844 Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-born Russian painter.

1878 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (The Gods of Pegāna).

1895 Robert Graves, English writer and poet (I Claudius)

1897 Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer.

1976 Yulia Navalnaya, Russian public figure and economist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WONDER IF THEY’LL BE ALLOWED IN CALIFORNIA. TESLA Robotaxi Timeline for Going Nationwide

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)