Mind & Meaning
June 2026
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Constellations
Mercury was once expected to be far too hot for ice, sitting closest to the Sun — but radar observations revealed bright patches near its poles, and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft later confirmed that many of them were water ice, preserved inside craters where sunlight never reaches.
Science
In 2016, Reuters reporters legally purchased two human heads and a cervical spine from a Tennessee broker for $900 plus shipping, and no federal law was broken in the transaction.
Human Behaviour
The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street — a movie about financial fraud — was financed in part with money U.S. prosecutors say was stolen from Malaysia's 1MDB national fund
Space Industry
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon 'the province of all mankind' and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule
Science
A dying star might never collapse into a black hole — a tiny Big Bang could ignite at its core and leave a gravastar with no singularity and no event horizon
Moon Daily
Dennis Hope has been selling acres of the moon for about $20 each since 1980, reportedly moving over 2.5 million parcels — every deed voided by a treaty he claims says nothing about private citizens
Moon Daily
The American flags planted by Apollo astronauts have likely bleached pure white after 50 years of unfiltered solar radiation, leaving the most famous banners in history standing as blank cloth
Moon Daily
Apollo 11's flag was knocked flat by the lunar module's own exhaust the instant the astronauts lifted off, meaning the first banner on the moon stood upright for less than a day
Moon Daily
A lunar meteorite found in northwest Africa has been shown to record evidence of an asteroid impact on the Moon 3.5 billion years ago, matching independently dated impacts on Earth and on the asteroid 4 Vesta from the same period, at the moment life on Earth was first taking hold
Constellations
344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth
Flora And Fauna
A survey of 64 limestone caves in Cambodia, reported in March 2026, turned up around 11 species new to science, among them a turquoise pit viper, a flying snake, geckos, micro-snails and millipedes
Mind & Meaning
The dust in your home is not just dirt — it is a mixture of skin, fabric, pollen, soil, insects, microbes, smoke, and microscopic plastic, turning an ordinary windowsill into a quiet archive of what has entered the room
Technology
Approximately 35 per cent of all purchases made on Amazon are driven by its recommendation engine, approximately 70 per cent of all viewing on YouTube comes from algorithm-driven recommendations, and peer-reviewed evidence has shown that even randomly assigned recommendations measurably alter what consumers are willing to pay for a product
Mind & Meaning
Thought of the day from Carl Jung: "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes"
Mind & Meaning