THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

― Nikola Tesla

BIRTHDAYS:

1565 Marie de Gournay, French writer and editor of Montaigne

1846 George Westinghouse, American inventor, engineer, and industrialist whose innovations in railway safety and electrical power distribution transformed transportation and energy systems.

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, anthropologist, and writer (Kon-Tiki)

1934 Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (nonviolent communication)

1950 David Brin, American physicist and science-fiction author (The Postman)

MISCELLANEOUS:

AND THEY HAVE TORNADOES. A hidden asteroid crater under Oklahoma could be connected to one of Earth’s major mass extinctions

MAKE SURE YOUR GENERATOR IS TOPPED OFF. Why is the 2027 total solar eclipse being called the ‘eclipse of the century’?