Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.
Thought for The Day:
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, 'Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.'”
― Eric Temple Bell
A short tribute to Walter E. Williams, 1936–2020: Hard-Nosed Economist, Generous Soul
A short tribute from Dr. Thomas Sowell: Walter Williams Best Moments (11:55)
Someone you should know: How One Entrepreneur Is Waging War on Poverty in Africa
Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.
Attention Stargazers: LIVE Stream: Total Solar Eclipse December 14, 2020
Birthdays:
Cornelis Pronk (1691 – 1759)
César Franck (1822 – 1890): Quintet in F minor, and Ave Maria
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Rumer Godden (1907 – 1998)
