THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Beware the man of a single book.”

— Thomas Aquinas

BIRTHDAYS:

1225 Thomas Aquinas, also known as Saint Thomas Aquinas or the Angelic Doctor, was an Italian Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy and Catholic theology.

1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor.

1722 Johann Ernst Bach, German kapellmeister and composer. Valet will ich dir geben, and Fantasie und Fuge d-moll

1855 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor of the first workable adding machine and the electric alarm clock.

1884 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth’s upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.

MISCELLANEOUS:

COMPETITION. Tesla Robotaxi Versus Waymo

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