Welcome to my experimental blog. Enjoy interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added to beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

Thought for The Day:

 

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

From JAMA: Diagnostic tests, elective procedures dropped early in COVID-19 pandemic 

 

A mystery worth exploring:  The Mystery of Taiwan 

 

If you agree with it, please sign it: Great Barrington Declaration

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Domenico Mazzocchi (1592 – 1665):  Lagrime Amare (La Maddalena ricorre alle lagrime), and Lagrime amare

 

 

Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742)

 

 

Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912)

 

 

Ben Bova (1932 -     )

 

 

Jack Kilby (1923 – 2005)