The oldest message humanity ever sent into space
In 1977, humans sent a golden record into space aboard Voyager.
It carries music, greetings, and sounds from Earth.
It wasn’t sent to be answered.
Just to say: we were here.
There’s something deeply human about that.
A colour humans couldn’t see
Ancient languages had no word for blue.
Some researchers believe people may not have perceived it the way we do today.
It makes me wonder how much of the world exists
that we still don’t know how to see.
Why are unwanted emails called spam?
It comes from Spam — the canned meat — and a Monty Python sketch.
In the sketch, the word is repeated endlessly, overwhelming everything else.
Early internet users borrowed it to describe messages that flooded conversations.
Sometimes the internet’s language
comes from jokes that refused to disappear.
A painting that terrified people for the wrong reason
When Van Gogh was alive, almost no one wanted his work.
Today, his paintings are treated like sacred objects.
It makes me wonder how many beautiful things we ignore
just because they don’t fit the moment we’re in.