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August 31, 2023
“We need to take a collective deep breath and understand what climate change is and isn’t. It is not like a huge asteroid hurtling toward earth, where we need to stop everything else and mobilize the entire global economy to ward off the end of the world. It is instead a long-term chronic condition like…
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August 30, 2023
“Breakthroughs in information and communications technology are leading to forms of dematerialization unimaginable just a decade ago. Consider smartphones. They require more energy to manufacture and operate than older cell phones. But by obviating the need for separate, physical newspapers, books, magazines, cameras, watches, alarm clocks, GPS systems, maps, letters, calendars, address books, and stereos,…
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August 29, 2023
“In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed.” ― Joost A.M. Meerloo 1609 Sassoferrato, Italian painter 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “father of liberalism” MISCELLANY: CAUGHT RED HANDED? ‘Legal’ concerns halt…
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August 28, 2023
“I think the first thing that has to happen is that public health should apologize. The public health establishment in the United States and the world has failed the public.” ― Jay Bhattacharya 1476 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and calligrapher (Kanō school of painting) 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman. 1829 Albert…
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August 27, 2023
“If you want to understand how to fix a problem in the world, you have to ask who is profiting from the problem. Not who is suffering from it.” ― Amos Nelson Wilson 1562 Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, Cantate Domino. 1739 Michel Delalande, French…
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August 26, 2023
“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” ― Ambrose Bierce 1726 Karl Kohaut, Austrian composer and lutenist. Concerto per il liuto, due violini & violoncello F-dur. 1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist. 1873 Lee De Forest, American inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube) 1900 Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (rocket engines…
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August 25, 2023
“If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’ More sad are these we daily see:‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.” ― Bret Harte 1836 Bret Harte, American author. 1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer. West Side Story – Prologue 1938 Frederick Forsyth, British author. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The…
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August 24, 2023
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” ― Voltaire 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) 1591 Robert Herrick, English poet. 1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, German composer. So gehst du dann, mein Jesu! hin 1733 David Traugott Nicolai, German composer. 1759 William Wilberforce, British politician,…
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August 23, 2023
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” ― Ludwig von Mises 1849 William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor. 1869 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth RELATED: Collateral…
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August 22, 2023
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” ― Leo Tolstoy 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer. Douxiéme Suitte op.3, and Cinquième suite in E minor, and Air en Musette for oboe and continuo 1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe.…
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