THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

— Scott Adams

BIRTHDAYS:

1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer, born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. “So ben mi ch’ha bon tempo”, and Amfiparnaso – Prologo.

1642 Johann Christoph Bach, German harpsichordist and composer. Keyboard Sonata No.4, E-flat major.

1841 Frédéric Bazille, French painter.

1843 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter and etcher.

1918 Harold Horace Hopkins, British physicist and optical engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to applied optics, including the development of zoom lenses, fiber optics, and the rod-lens system that transformed endoscopic instruments.

MISCELLANEOUS:

TELESCOPES HAVE COME A LONG WAY. NASA’s next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected?

REMINDER:

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