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January 4, 2020

January 4, 2020

 

YES, EDGE HAS CERTAINLY HAD ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT.  Top web browsers 2020: Microsoft's IE and Edge move up

 

BACKUP YOUR DATA. PLEASE. Company shuts down because of ransomware, leaves 300 without jobs just before holidays 

 

CROSSING MY FINGERS.  SpaceX's New Starship Prototype Could Fly in Just 3 Months, Elon Musk Says

 

I BECAME MORE OPTIMISTIC WHEN I STOPPED WATCHING TV NEWS.  Reasons for Optimism in 2020

 

APPARENTLY THIS WORKS FOR SOME PEOPLE.  Dating Sunday: Tips for making...

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January 5, 2020

January 5, 2020

 

ATTENTION ASPIRING LEADERS: The Eight Personalities You’ll Encounter When Building Coalitions 

 

Birthdays:

 

Jean Baptiste Say (1767 – 1832)

 

King C. Gillette (1855 – 1932)

 

William Cobbold (1560–1639): With Wreaths Of Rose And Laurel

 

Henry Lawes (1596 – 1662): Go Lovely Rose

 

Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679 – 1750): Toccata in A minor

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January 6, 2020

January 7, 2020

 

REASON 8: WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE HAVE ALL THE FUN?  7 Reasons to Learn a Foreign Language

 

Birthdays:

 

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)

 

Eric Frank Russell (1905 – 1978)

 

Giuseppe Sammartini (1695 – 1750):  Recorder Concerto in F Major, 1. Allegro

 

Max Bruch (1838 – 1920):  Violin Concerto 3rd Movement

 

Alexander Scriabin (1871 – 1915):  Scriabin plays Scriabin

 

Dame Adeline Genée (1878 – 1970)

 

 

 

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January 7, 2020

January 8, 2020

 

IS THIS A TRICK QUESTION?  Do We Need Compulsory Public Education? (30:07 MINS)

 

Birthdays:

 

Frank Nelson Doubleday (1862 - 1934)

Frank Dyson (1868 – 1939)

Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)

 

Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)

 

Jean Gilles (1668 – 1705):  motet "Cantate Jordanis Incola"

 

 

 

 

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George Washington Carver

January 10, 2020

Source: tuskegee.edu 

 

TRUE. “We” Should Not Regulate Homeschooling 

 

Birthdays:

 

Gasparo Visconti (1683- 1713):  Sonata in sol minore op. I n. 3

 

George Washington Carver (1860s – 1943)

 

Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - )

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January 11, 2020

January 12, 2020

 

MUCH BETTER THAN TAPING TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR KEYBOARD: The Best Password Managers for 2020

 

AND ALSO READ "ATOMIC HABITS" BY JAMES CLEAR.  How to Break Bad Habits: A Behavioral Psychologist Explains 

 

ATTENTION STARGAZERS:  This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 10 – 18 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

Joseph Jackson Lister (1786 – 1869)

 

Ezra Cornell (1807 – 1874)

 

 

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January 12, 2020

January 13, 2020

 

 

Birthdays:

 

Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703)

 

Paul Hermann Müller (1899 – 1965)

 

Reinhard Keiser (1674 – 1739): Sinfonia from 'Der lächerliche Printz Jodelet'

 

Jacques Duphly (1715 – 1789): La Forqueray

 

 

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January 13, 2020

January 13, 2020

 

CONTROLLED BURNS? MAYBE CALIFORNIA SHOULD LOOK INTO IT: Australia's indigenous people have a solution for the country's bushfires. And it's been around for 50,000 years

 

QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHY IS STUDENT DEBT TERRIBLE, BUT NATIONAL DEBT IS OKAY? The 2020s Will Be the Decade of Deficit Doomsday

 

Birthdays:

 

Christoph Graupner (1683 – 1760):  Concerto a clarino, 2 violini, viola e cembalo in D major GWV 308

 

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 - 1749):  Concerto grosso a quattro...

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January 15, 2020

January 15, 2020

 

 

Birthdays:

 

Molière (1622 - 1673)

 

January 16, 2020

January 17, 2020

 

 

Happy Birthday:

 

Wikipedia (2001 - )