A poet laureate of physics

In the mail box on this day named after Odin . . .

. . . in 1985, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a Poet Laureate for the United States. The first laureate, named in 1986, was Robert Penn Warren. The current Poet Laureate is Ada Limón.

It's a Wonderful Life, the Academy Award film directed by Frank Capra premiered in U.S. theatres on this day in 1946.

David Bohm was born on this day in 1917 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The American-born British theoretical physicist developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics.

(from) A New National Anthem

The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National
Anthem...just a call to the field,

something to get through before
the pummeling of youth.

And what of the stanzas we never sing …

Perhaps,
the truth is, every song of this country
has an unsung third stanza, something brutal
snaking underneath us as we blindly sing
the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands
hoping our team wins...

– Ada Limón, A New National Anthem, BuzzFeed, 2010.