• Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) were framed as a literal “slow-cooking” mechanism of aging, prompting discussion of core-body-temperature logging via ingestible RF capsules and ear IR sensors to correlate thermal set-points with performance and longevity.

• A zebrafish lineage-tracking pipeline was outlined: time-lapse confocal microscopy with dual fluorescent labels, aiming to surpass the 2003 hybrid-watershed algorithm (PMID 14566936) and potentially adopt Brainbow-style color-coding for non-neuronal tissues.

• SKDB is evolving into a Debian-style package manager for hardware: each “package” bundles CAD, material specs, and Python code exposing physical properties (e.g., `breaking_force()`, `Assembly.detect_failure_modes()`), with a new “pymates” submodule modeling assemblies as compatibility-checked graphs.

• TangibleBit merged into SKDB, preserving its Django/XML-RPC server and “tb-get” client; the combined stack will be demoed to ~300 FabLab attendees in India, while debate continues over XML-RPC vs. YAML vs. future XMPP-RPC for real-time job scheduling.

• Acoustic droplet ejection (ADE) microfluidics was highlighted for contact-free, addressable picoliter spotting, alongside practical biohacking tips: DIY C. elegans cultures for cheap biology and induction heaters for carbothermal battery fabrication.

• pyscholar, a new Python library, wraps Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, and arXiv via XPath scrapers to provide command-line paper retrieval with MeSH/MSC filtering, complementing ongoing work on Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, and DataHub scraper patterns.

• Repository hygiene saw a massive git reorganization (tabs-to-spaces, DTDs, `git-import-folder` script), while the Michigan RepRap Users Group held its first meet-up with four working machines and a hacksaw-only CNC axis, pushing ultra-low-tooling fabrication.

• Links circulated include the String Theory Wiki, IBM/Philips Python manufacturing case study, Jaynes Lab unit-testing guidelines, and a 2008 ScienceDaily article on musical training enhancing verbal memory and literacy.