Thought for the day:

"O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers."

— Andrew Lang

 

Birthdays:

1768 Joseph Fourier

1839 Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

1856 Henry Ossian Flipper

 

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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