Welcome to this experimental blog. Here I present interesting or useful articles and introduce you to individuals who I think have in some way made this a better or happier world.

Thought for The Day:

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." —Julius Caesar

Eight paragraphs: The Great Barrington Declaration

"After a change in reporting procedure, daily updates vanished." Someone leaked the COVID...

Welcome to this experimental blog. Here I present interesting or useful articles and introduce you to individuals who I think have in some way made this a better or happier world.

Thought for The Day:

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.  —Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eight paragraphs: The Great Barrington Declaration

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Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692 – 1766): Concerto Armonico nr. 1 in G major,...

Welcome to this experimental blog. Here I present interesting or useful articles and introduce you to individuals who I think have in some way made this a better or happier world.

Thought for The Day:

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx

514 words: The Great Barrington Declaration

The larger picture: A Contagion of Hatred and Hysteria

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Samuel Scheidt (1587 – 1654):  Bergamasca,...

Welcome to this experimental blog. Here I present interesting or useful articles and introduce you to individuals who I think have in some way made this a better or happier world.

Thought for The Day:

"By seeking and blundering we learn." — Goethe

Some background:  A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy

Learning from mistakes: Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress

Concerned citizens are allowed to sign this: Great Barrington...

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Welcome to this experimental blog. Here I present interesting or useful articles and introduce you to individuals who I think have in some way made this a better or happier world.

Thought for The Day:

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men." — Friedrich Schiller 
 

Have you seen this? Great Barrington Declaration

My Mom said these fascinated her as a little girl: When X-Rays Were...

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Thought for The Day:

"When words leave off, music begins." — Heinrich Heine

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Julien Perrichon (1566 – c.1600):  En Me Revenant, and Courante

Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval (1753 –...

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Thought for The Day:

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." — Thomas Sowell

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Carlo Cecere (1706 – 1761):  Concerto per mandolino e archi

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Thought for The Day:

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From JAMA: Diagnostic tests, elective procedures dropped early in COVID-19 pandemic 

A mystery worth exploring:  The Mystery of Taiwan 

If you agree with it,...

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Thought for The Day:

“Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work...

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“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of...

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Thought for The Day:

"Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival."

                           — W. Edwards Deming

Green energy I can get behind:  Nuscale Will Get 25% More From Modular Nuclear Reactors For Breakthrough Economic Value

If you agree with it... please sign the Great...

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Thought for The Day:

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

— Alan Kay

Please consider signing... the Great Barrington Declaration.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902)

Alexander Borodin (1833 – 1887): Polovstian Dances

Auguste Rodin (1840...

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Thought for The Day:

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

— Peter F. Drucker

This is worth a read: please consider signing... the Great Barrington Declaration.

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Jan Zach (1713 – 1773):  Salve Regina

Robert Louis Stevenson (18...

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Thought for The Day:

"Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system; mainly they are concerned with infringing on the property rights of one (less politically powerful) group of citizens for the...

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Thought for The Day:

"The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.

— Dr. Ralph C. Smedley

The Larger Question: Keeping Covid Perspective 

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

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Gerhardus Havingha (1696-1753): Ouverture for...

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Thought for The Day:

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

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Guillaume Dumanoir (1615 - 1697): Libertas, and Allemande De Mr...

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Thought for The Day:

"The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington."

— Stephen Moore

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

Does this mean Christmas might get...

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Thought for The Day:

"Don’t take advice from unhappy people."
 

— Afua Richardson

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

I hope she get's a percentage of the profits. Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna's coronavirus vaccine research

Again? Why is this...

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Thought for The Day:

"We must remember our humanity and the humanity of our opponents." — Rory Margra

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

Birthdays:

Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607 – 1678)

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 – 1844)

Emile...

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Thought for The Day:

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." — Plato

If you haven't seen this... the Great Barrington Declaration.

Because things are looking desperate for more and more Californians.  Califor...