August 8, 2025

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1571 John Ward, English composer. If heav’n’s just wrath, and Come Sable Night

1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British portrait and court painter.

1857 Cécile Chaminade, French pianist. Noturno Opus 165, and Capriccio, and Concertino de Cécile Chaminade

1901 Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron – Nobel 1939).

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE LOEB SCALE. NASA Should Move the Juno Jupiter Probe to Observe Interstellar 3I/Atlas on March 16, 2026

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)

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