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Thought for the Day: “Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.” ― Friederich Hayek Birthdays: 1711 David Hume 1748 Olympe de Gouges 1812 Robert Browning 1833 Johannes Brahms: Opus 118 (24:28)…

Thought for the Day: “Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.” ― Petr Beckmann Birthdays: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger 1606 Lorenzo Lippi 1856 Sigmund Freud 1858 Georges Hüe: Fantasy for flute and…

Thought for the Day: “Ideas have consequences that can transform society.― Ricardo Benjamín Salinas Pliego Birthdays: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile: Arianna infelice (extrait), and Sarabande in g-minor, and Le sofferte amare pene, 1903 James Beard 1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…

Thought for the Day: “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ― Milton Friedman Birthdays: 1744 Marianne Martinez: Sonata in E Major: I.Allegro II.Andante III.Presto, and Sinfonia in C-Dur 1826 Frederick Edwin Church 1940 Robin Cook MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS,…

Thought for the Day: “The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place…

Thought for the Day: “If you will it, it is no dream.” ― Theodor Herzl Birthdays: 1660 Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Johannem 1797 Abraham Pineo Gesner 1844 Elijah McCoy 1860 Theodor Herzl 1890 E. E. Smith 1947 James Dyson MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…

Thought for the Day: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” ― Michael Malice Birthdays: 1582 Marco da Gagliano: Per la gloriosissima Vergine, and Valli Profonde MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science…

Thought for the Day: “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old…

Thought for the Day: “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” ― Herbert Spencer Birthdays: 1636 Esaias Reusner: Allemanda a minor, Suite in F major 1854 Henri Poincaré MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for…

Thought for the Day: “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable…