- Keith Henson’s “Dollar-a-Gallon Gasoline” proposal (linked on htyp.org) was circulated as a potential low-cost energy scenario.  
- Elsevier’s ScienceDirect RSS system was found to generate MD5-tagged, time-limited URLs, prompting criticism of its “bad website architecture” and blocking persistent RSS access.  
- An OPML export of 600+ ScienceDirect feeds was shared (heybryan.org/bookmarks/…xml) as a workaround for tracking new geophysics and materials-science papers.  
- Two deep-mantle mineral-physics papers were highlighted: “Frontiers and Grand Challenges in Mineral Physics of the Deep Mantle” and “Evolution of large amplitude 3D fold patterns: A FEM study.”  
- Discussion of lossy audio transcoding concluded that re-encoding at the same or higher bitrate (e.g., 256→256 kbps or 320→320 kbps) still degrades quality because each lossy pass discards additional information.  
- A “Large Hadron Rap” YouTube video was shared as an educational outreach example, alongside a Physics Buzz post on inducing long-term potentiation in cultured neurons.