THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

— Aldous Huxley

BIRTHDAYS:

1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library).

1647 Denis Papin, French physicist, and inventor (steam piston engine; Papinian pot (pressure cooker)

1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer. Cinquième suite in E minor

1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe

1862 Claude Debussy, French composer. Arabesque No. 1, and La mer

1893 Dorothy Parker, American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

1896 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929.

1920 Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author. Fahrenheit 451 – “We must burn the books, Montag. All the books”. (1966) (3:38)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 22 – 31

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. AND FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)