THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.”

— Andrew J. Galambos

BIRTHDAYS:

1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton’s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in September 1682, he used Newton’s law of universal gravitation to compute the periodicity of Halley’s Comet in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. It was named after him upon its predicted return in 1758, which he did not live to see.

1836 James Ritty, American saloon owner and inventor (mechanical cash register).

1861 Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter, born in Borisoglebsk Uyezd.

1954 Lee Child, English author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

GAME CHANGER. The world’s first commercial space station is getting closer to launch

I HAD TO READ THIS HEADLINE THREE TIMES. Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice With Impressive New Treatment

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration