THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

— Eric Hoffer

BIRTHDAYS:

1503 Il Bronzino, Italian Florentine painter in Mannerist style (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son), born in Florence.

1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French Baroque painter and cartoonist

1752 Nicolas Appert, French inventor of airtight food preservation (food canning, bouillon tablet)

1787 Michele Carafa, Italian opera composer (Le nozze di Lammermoor), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. L’Amica ancor non torna

1790 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer, discovered the Möbius strip, born in Schulpforta, Saxony.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S PROBABLY ALIENS. Interstellar Object 3/I Atlas Has Twelve Anomalies So Far

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