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Mind & MeaningWe tend to define boredom as the feeling of having nothing to do, but it might really be a failure of attention — a restless ache of wanting to engage your mind and being unable to. Ask most people what boredom is and you get a version of the same answer: it is what happens when there is nothing to do. By Mal James · Jun 10, 2026

ScienceEverest is the highest mountain above sea level, but most of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is hidden beneath the Pacific, and measured from its base on the ocean floor to its summit it stands more than a kilometre taller than Everest, making it the tallest mountain on Earth. Mount Everest keeps the title most people mean when they talk about the highest mountain on Earth. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 10, 2026

Human BehaviourBy 2030, Korean women are projected to become the first population in human history with an average life expectancy above 90 years — exceeding even Japan — according to a Lancet study of 35 industrialized nations, in a demographic shift driven by improvements in cardiovascular health and near-universal healthcare access In February 2017, an international team led by Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, published a paper in The Lancet projecting future life expectancy across 35 industrialised countries. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 10, 2026

Mind & MeaningThought of the day from novelist and essayist Annie Dillard: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." The line comes from a book about writing, of all things. In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard writes: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. By Mal James · Jun 10, 2026

PsychologyThought by Carl Sagan: "All of human history happened on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." Everyone you love lives on less than a pixel There is a photograph people reach for whenever they have just lost an argument, a job, or their nerve. By Daniel Moran · Jun 10, 2026