Welcome to my experimental blog. Here I try to share interesting or useful articles, and celebrate people who I think have helped make the world more beautiful, happier, or secure.

 

 

Thought for the Day:

 

"Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination."

 

— Thomas Sowell

 

 

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 – 1712)

 

 

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671 – 1751):  Adagio

 

 

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856):  Kinderszenen Op.15, "Scenes from Childhood"

 

 

Julien Dillens (1849 – 1904)

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959)

 

 

Francis Crick (1916 – 2004) 

 

 

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955 -    )