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...

 

"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

 

― William Strunk, Jr.

 

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

Attention Stargazers: This Week's Sky At a Glance, January 1 - 9

 

 

Birthdays:



 

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)

 

 

Carl Gustav Carus (1789 – 1869)

 

 

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823 – 1881)

 

 

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)

 

 

Victor Borge (1909 – 2000)