THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

— C. S. Lewis

BIRTHDAYS:

1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L’elisir d’amore; Lucia di Lammermoor), born in Bergamo, Cisalpine Republic. “una furtiva Lagrima” from L’elisir d’amore

1803 Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist renowned for formulating the Doppler effect, a principle describing how the observed frequency of waves—such as sound or light—shifts depending on the relative motion between the source and the observer.

1832 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868), which chronicled the lives of four sisters during and after the American Civil War and became a commercial success that financially secured her family.

1849 John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, physicist and inventor.

1898 C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British writer, scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature, and lay Christian apologist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

NO FISH WRAPPING INVOLVED. Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

INTERESTING. Inhibiting a master regulator of aging regenerates joint cartilage in mice

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