THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.”

— Joseph Lister

BIRTHDAYS:

1784 Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer (Faust), born in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire. Fantasia Op. 35 für Harfe Solo, and 6 Deutsche Lieder, op. 103 (1837) Nro.6

1827 Joseph Lister, English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet.

1856 Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, and orator.

1937 Allan R. Thieme, American inventor (first Power operated vehicle/scooter)

1951 Dean Kamen, American engineer and inventor (Segway)

MISCELLANEOUS:

“BUT EVERYTHING’S IS FINE”. Artemis 2 astronauts — now halfway to the moon — report ‘burning smell’ from toilet, but everything’s fine

“A STRIKING PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME” (SO TO SPEAK). The powerful new Rubin Observatory just found 11,000 new asteroids and measured ‘tens of thousands more’