- Handwriting as a cognitive bottleneck: participants note that “drawing” individual letters allows any style, but fluent writing for content remains arduous, especially cursive, prompting the remark “what a cruel practice.”  
- A link to a study on handwriting anomalies in children with Asperger Syndrome (http://www.nha-handwriting.org.uk/Article_2.htm) was shared as potentially relevant to broader cognition-motor-skill discussions.  
- A DIY robotic handwriting demo was showcased via an image link (http://fennetic.net/pub/irc/cxf_hello.png) as a practical alternative to manual writing.  
- Critique of continuing cursive instruction in schools: consensus that it is obsolete given digital alternatives and the difficulty many experience with the skill.  
- Inquiry about live coverage of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) conference at UCLA; no known feed was identified, and Aubrey de Grey was suggested as the contact who might respond more readily on Facebook.  
- A pointer to the Extropy-Chat mailing list post (http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2008-July/044297.html) was dropped as relevant reading for the channel.