Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Today is a very special occasion — the date is a palindrome, meaning it is the same when read forwards and backwards.
It is February 2, 2020, or 02/02/2020, in both the MM/DD/YYYY format and the DD/MM/YYYY format. At … Continue reading Today is 02/02/2020 — the First Global Palindrome Day in 909 Years
“They have done biohacking, clean sleeping and the keto diet, but now Silicon Valley types have coined a new health trend — dopamine fasting,” reports the Guardian:
It is thought that depriving yourself of the neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger t… Continue reading Silicon Valley’s Newest Health Fad: Dopamine Fasting
An anonymous reader quotes a Yahoo News 360 report on Americans who hate Daylight Savings Time:
A push to end the semiannual clock shift, which has been shown to correlate with negative health and productivity outcomes, is gaining steam throughout the… Continue reading 70% of Americans Dislike Daylight Savings Time
An anonymous reader quotes a Yahoo News 360 report on Americans who hate Daylight Saving Time:
A push to end the semiannual clock shift, which has been shown to correlate with negative health and productivity outcomes, is gaining steam throughout the … Continue reading 70% of Americans Dislike Daylight Saving Time
haaz (Slashdot reader #3,346) tells us that history has just been made as part of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals annual online game-playing fundraiser, Extra Life:
A man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is trying to play pinball long enough to bre… Continue reading World Pinball-Playing Record Broken During Gamers’ Livestreaming-for-Charity Event
Here’s an interesting thought exercise from Slashdot reader dryriver :
What is likely to be so different about living in 2039 that it makes our current present in 2019 feel badly dated in many ways? And can we learn lessons about what we are not doing … Continue reading Ask Slashdot: How Will 2019 Look To People 20 Years From Now?
CNN reports:
Pizza might protect against cancer, why wombats poop in cubes and a diaper changing machine that can be used on human babies — these are just some of the research and inventions awarded at this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, a spoof of the actu… Continue reading 2019’s ‘Ig Nobel’ Prizes Honor Strange, Unusual, and Hilarious Research
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider:
An ambitious project that purported to turn anyone into a farmer with a single tool is scraping by with smoke-and-mirror tactics, employees told Business Insider. The “personal food computer,” a device that… Continue reading MIT’s Epstein-Funded Media Lab Accused of Faking Hydroponic Plant Experiments
An anonymous reader quotes the lead consumer technology writer for the New York Times:
I’m neither a Luddite nor a cheapskate. But after testing hundreds of tech products — and buying some along the way — over the last dozen years, I’ve come to a co… Continue reading ‘The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter’
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen writes:
Imagine you had a perfect chair for using your computer. Also a perfect chair for watching TV. And a chair for listening to music, a chair for reading, a chair for napping, a work chair that keeps you awake, and… Continue reading ‘I Want a Super-Smart Chair!’