THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I dwell in possibility…”

— Emily Dickinson

BIRTHDAYS:

1815 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and writer, the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, a woman with mathematical training.

1822 César Franck, Belgian-born composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who became a central figure in French Romantic music, renowned for blending German structural rigor with French lyricism in his compositions. Panis Angelicus, and Prélude, Fugue Et Variation Op. 18

1830 Emily Dickinson, American poet born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, who composed nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, the vast majority of which remained unpublished until after her death.

1906 Walter Zinn, Canadian-born American nuclear physicist renowned for directing the construction and operation of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction achieved on December 2, 1942, under Enrico Fermi’s leadership as part of the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.

1907 Rumer Godden, English author.

1919 Alexander Courage, American composer (original Star Trek theme)

MISCELLANEOUS:

DON’T PET THE MARTIAN CATS. Hear dust devils on Mars crackle with electricity in new NASA Perseverance rover video

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