THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

— G.K. Chesterton

BIRTHDAYS:

1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (first woman to receive an academic degree from a university).

1665 Nicolas Bernier, French composer. Sapho

1900 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British physicist and engineer (invented holography; Nobel Prize in Physics 1971).

1949 Ken Follett, Welsh author of spy thrillers and historical novels.

MISCELLANEOUS:

LET’S SEE IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. My Students Can’t Read: The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.