THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

— George Orwell

BIRTHDAYS:

1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia).

1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), born in Aversa, Kingdom of Naples. Concerto for 2 flutes

1797 Joseph Henry, American scientist and pioneer of electromagnetism.

1807 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet (Snow-bound) and advocate for the abolition of slavery.

1853 Émile Roux, Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute’s production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease.

1908 Willard Libby, American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology.

1929 William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ONCE AGAIN HISTORY ABOUT TO BE MADE.
Experiments on a private space station: Vast asks scientists for research proposals

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