THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

BIRTHDAYS:

1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

1802 Lydia Maria Child, American author, journalist and abolitionist.

1839 Josiah Willard Gibbs, American theoretical physicist and chemist.

1847 Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman.

1898 Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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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