THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

BIRTHDAYS:

1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He was one of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment and is best known for his work in mathematics and his contributions to the famous Encyclopédie.

1720 Charles-Antoine Campion, Italian composer. op.4, no 2

1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter.

1922 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe

1925 Michel Jouvet, French neuroscientist and medical researcher who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement (REM sleep.)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ROBERT HEINLEIN, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE. How spacefaring nations could avoid conflict on the moon

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

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration