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:

1618 Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish baroque composer. “Un portugués y un gallego”

1846 George Westinghouse, prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1903 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (Nobel Prize 1951 for work building earliest particle accelerator)

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

1950 David Brin, American sci-fi author (The Postman)

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WASN’T WORRIED UNTIL NOW. The confirmation of alien life on a planet 124 light-years away should worry us all

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration