THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

— Isaac Newton

BIRTHDAYS:

1643 Isaac Newton, English polymath whose empirical investigations and mathematical innovations transformed the understanding of motion, gravity, light, and calculation, while his private pursuits in alchemy and biblical theology occupied much of his intellectual life.

1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo; La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress); Stabat Mater), born in Jesi, Papal States. “Se tu m’ami”

1785 Jacob Grimm, fairy tales, and foundational contributions to other things.

1809 Louis Braille, French educator and inventor best known for developing Braille, a tactile writing system using raised dots that enables blind and visually impaired people to read and write independently.

1813 Isaac Pitman, English teacher and inventor who developed the most widely used system of shorthand writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries, known as Pitman shorthand or phonography.

MISCELLANEOUS:

INTERESTING. AI Rising in 2026. INSANE Changes.

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