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Submission Summary: 2 pending, 54 declined, 12 accepted (68 total, 17.65% accepted)

Submission + - A Mathematician Calculated The Size of a Giant Meatball Made of Every Human (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: "If you blended all 7.88 billion people on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human = 985 kg/m3, average human body mass = 62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide," Reddit contributor kiki2703 wrote in a post I've since bookmarked for sharing at the family barbeques I'm no longer allowed to attend.

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Submission + - Caffeine Has a Weird Effect on Your Brain While You're Asleep (sciencealert.com) 1

alternative_right writes: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by researchers from the University of Montreal in Canada. This criticality refers to the brain being balanced between structure and flexibility, thought to be the most efficient state for processing information, learning, and making decisions.

Submission + - International Day of Slayer XX (June 6, 2025) (nationaldayofslayer.org)

alternative_right writes: On June 6th, Hessians worldwide come together to do something upon which we can all agree — listening to Slayer! Finally, one of the most dismissed cultural groups in the world has a holiday to call its own. Join us in our cause to stand unified in our celebration of metal music and let us prove to the rest of society that we too have a voice.

Submission + - Missions to Mars with the Starship could only take three months (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Many researchers consider the technology the only means to reduce transit times to the point that a mission will fall within NASA's career radiation limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv). Kingdon's study challenges this prevailing assumption and advances the theory that a 90-day transfer can be achieved using conventional propulsion.

Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2

alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.

Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.

Submission + - The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site (404media.co)

alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fthe-ci...

 

Submission + - Email from Google: law enforcement is looking into your account (kaspersky.com)

alternative_right writes: After a Google OAuth application is registered, the service allows sending a notification to the email address associated with the verified domain. Interestingly enough, the administrator of the web application is free to manually enter any text as the “App name” — which seems to be what the criminals exploited.

Submission + - You don't need hardcore hardware to serve up a million page views an hour (sapka.pl)

alternative_right writes: This site is self hosted. It runs in my living room, inside a FreeBSD virtual machine, running on a Synology 920+ NAS. My home internet has 40Mbs upload. Yesterday, my post reached main page on the Orange Site. My home machine and my home internet didn't even break a sweat. There was no interruption, there was no alerts on GPU melting, there was not even a fan to be heard.

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