THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1639 Jean Racine, French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.

1702 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer.

1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, born in Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen, Holy Roman Empire. Arpeggio

1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer renowned for his operas that blend melodic richness with dramatic realism. “O mio babbino caro”, and Nessun Dorma

1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet renowned for his narrative verse, psychological depth, and depictions of ordinary individuals grappling with disillusionment in small-town New England settings, often fictionalized as “Tilbury Town.”

1905 Tommy Flowers, pioneering British electrical engineer best remembered for designing and building the Colossus computer, the world’s first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, which played a crucial role in decrypting high-level German communications during the Second World War.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I REMEMBER WHEN PALOMAR WAS THE CAT’S PAJAMAS. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope completes its 1st cosmic map of the entire sky and it’s stunning!

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