THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

— Michael Crichton

BIRTHDAYS:

1741 Henri-Joseph Rigel, German composer, born in Wertheim am Main, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Sinfonia Op.12 n.6 in sol magg. – I movimento

1770 Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer (Méthode, Op. 27), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. Prelude in A Minor, and Siciliana

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION MARS COLONISTS. Update.

GREAT NEWS. Surgical innovation may cut ovarian cancer risk by nearly 80%

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities should become acquainted with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration