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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

Earth NewsApple-sized rocks four kilometres below the central Pacific Ocean contain more cobalt and manganese than all known land deposits combined, and mining companies are now racing to extract them from one of the least-explored ecosystems on Earth, where over 90 per cent of the local species are still undescribed. The region is called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. It is approximately six million square kilometres of abyssal plain stretching between… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 9, 2026

Mind & MeaningAfter tracking how people formed new friendships, a researcher estimated the hours it quietly takes — about 50 to feel like casual friends, but more than 200 before someone becomes a close one More than 200 hours of hanging out, talking, and doing ordinary things together before someone starts to look less like a regular friend and more like a close one. By Mal James · Jun 9, 2026

Earth NewsIn January 1995, fourteen wolves were brought from Canada in wooden crates and released into Yellowstone National Park to replace the population killed off by 1926, and the question of whether they have changed the course of the park's rivers, as popular science videos viewed by tens of millions claim, has now become one of the most contested debates in ecology. The first eight wolves arrived through the Roosevelt Arch on the morning of 12 January 1995, in a horse trailer escorted by two park service patrol cars. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 9, 2026