• The Pink Army Cooperative, an open-source cancer-therapy initiative, has grown to 30 members and relaunched its website, prompting debate over whether charging a registration fee conflicts with open-source ideals.  
• Participants questioned the feasibility of a shared “central synthetic-biology facility,” noting that even molecular biology lacks a universally accepted definition, making a common synbio standard elusive.  
• A MATLAB script for cycloidal-gear design was shared and critiqued; the author could not recall the rationale for the rb/z ratio and sought validation, leading to a Python rewrite using python-cairo that exports SVG/PNG for import into HeeksCAD.  
• Open-hardware links circulated included “Print Your Atomic Force Microscope” (PDF) and a DIY-BIO growth-curve image, while a paper on “Translational Meshing Motor” by Qiang Xu et al. was cited as background for a proposed RepRap stepper-motor gearbox with a 1-tooth-difference cycloidal reduction.  
• Discussion of classroom i>clicker remotes at 915 MHz explored hacks such as averaging student answers, spoofing responses to skew grading curves, and statistically identifying consistently correct students.  
• A recurring cost-to-transhumanism estimate (~US$750 for a neurofeedback device plus TMS unit) claimed to enable 2-hour sleep, +30 IQ points, and stress elimination; skeptics requested citations and pointed to the open-rtms paper collection and human-brain.yaml file.  
• Adrafinil sourcing was compared: Biogenesis.com at ~$33/month versus modafinil at ~$350/month without insurance.  
• University BitTorrent restrictions prompted advice on proxy servers and the risks of Tor exit nodes, with paranoia voiced about campus “student moles” monitoring file-sharing.