Give Us Back Our Moon Dust And Cockroaches

Headline of the day.

NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back.

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The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life.

A history of the black square in art before Kasimir Malevich. Includes one of my favourites – Robert Fludd depicting the universe before creation in 1617:

It’s a long read, full of many good things, and sent me down a brief rabbithole to find out who Les Incoherents were, which brought me to: Found in a Trunk: The Lost Avant-Garde Movement that came Decades before Dada