- Kevin Kelly has reportedly followed a 20-minute × 4 polyphasic sleep schedule for 15 years and expressed enthusiasm for a lifelogging project shared by a channel member.  
- Discussion of Kevin Kelly’s “Forever Book” concept—a self-replicating book that teaches how to make books from dirt and plants—linked to his 2006 blog post on kk.org.  
- A non-functional Python script for generating “wobble gears” was posted to Pastebin twice, with an open challenge to fix it.  
- Joseph Jackson’s DIYbio fundraising effort on UnreasonableFinalists.org was highlighted as an active project seeking community support.  
- A Nature paper on direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons using only three transcription factors (Ascl1, Brn2, Myt1l) was circulated; participants debated whether full reprogramming via iPSCs is still required and asked for validation data (Western blots, RT-PCR).  
- Gary Wolf (Wired / NY Times) interviewed a channel member about self-tracking and the SKDB open-manufacturing project, noting his prior excitement over Andrew Hessel’s work.  
- The “Win Human Recorder” health-monitoring skin patch was shared from Singularity Hub as an example of emerging personal telemetry devices.  
- A research paper on optimizing FDM 3-D printing parameters with a bacterial foraging algorithm was mentioned as a novel computational approach to additive manufacturing.  
- A large personal collection of bioinformatics papers hosted on bio.cc was revealed to be an unsuspecting mirror of kanzure’s own repository.  
- The nascent “American Pirate Party” (considering rebrands such as “Open Party” or “People’s Front of Judea”) was discussed as a potential political vehicle for open-source manufacturing and transhumanist goals, featuring ideas like genetic-algorithm-driven policy and Condorcet voting.