Thought for the day:

"Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better."  — Charles McCarry
 

Birthdays:

43 BC Ovid

1811 George Caleb Bingham

1828 Henrik Ibsen

1836 Edward Poynter

1840 Illarion Pryanishnikov

1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor

1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1, Vivace 1st movement, and Piano Concerto No 2 (38:40)

1925 David Warren

 

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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