One would have hoped that after 200,000 years of evolution, humans have surpassed the need to be evil.

Situation: No unread messages, phone locked.

Me: Do I have any unread messages?
Siri: There aren't any unread messages.

Situation: One or more unread messages, phone locked.

Back in May - July 2013 I took a series of photomicrographs of a Peacock's Feather up close under my Olympus BX53 microscope. I first uploaded these photos to Flickr sometime soon after, back in 2013. And that was that.

Three days ago it seems a person posted one of the photos to imgur. It was then reposted on Reddit by the same person. From here it went viral - to use that dreaded word. I have been contacted by no fewer than 10 publications asking for permissions to run with the story, including the likes of Gizmodo, The Colossal, PetaPixel, The Scientist, Metro Online UK etc.

The point is - this image was taken in 2013, posted for the whole internet to see and laid dormant for 3 years before it was rediscovered. Imagine how many other things are hiding in plain sight? We have this huge interconnected network but most things get lost in the sheer volume of data.