THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

BIRTHDAYS:

1852 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter.

1868 Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac).

1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18

1908 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist who created Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

1929 Milan Kundera, Czech-French poet and novelist (The Joke: The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Immortality).

MISCELLANEOUS:

TODAY IS THE DAY. NASA set to launch Artemis 2 moon mission today, the 1st crewed lunar flight since 1972

IS THIS FOR REAL? You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You’d Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging

WHAT A COINCIDENCE. April’s full ‘Pink Moon’ rises tonight — just as NASA readies its Artemis 2 moon mission

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: