• Gaia University and Marcin Jakubowski launched five open-source Ph.D. tracks that treat resilient-community business models, scrap-metal civilization, modern steam engines, the LifeTrac universal utility machine, and scalable open-source product pipelines as legitimate academic subjects.

• Channel members debated what counts as “transhuman”: RFID implants were dismissed as trivial, while compass-sense tongue piercings or blood-powered computers were offered as examples that genuinely expand human capability.

• Makers Local 256 released a full teardown of the BPM Personal Modeler 2100 wax printer, documenting the piezo spray-head down to the driver electronics, and others sketched DIY wearables for magnetic orientation and perfect-time perception.

• A side-by-side cost analysis of a full MIT-style Fab Lab—using the official inventory (fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fab/inv.html) and community BOMs on designfiles.org—showed a price tag “over 2 million,” sparking discussion on whether such a lab can still be called “DIY.”

• Compressed sensing was introduced via Wired and several academic PDFs; kanzure summarized it as “best-fit interpolation over all available data points” to reconstruct missing or noisy pixels with minimal change to the underlying image function.

• TED 2010 speakers of transhumanist interest were flagged: Mark Roth’s suspended-animation research, Nicholas Christakis’s social-network biology, and Good magazine’s coverage of spider-silk composites that rival Kevlar.

• An MBA graduate volunteered free business-model and project-management help to the gnusha open-source-hardware effort; JayDugger advised treating the offer as genuine strategic support rather than “crap work,” with a follow-up call scheduled.

• Key open-science and open-hardware links circulated: OpenStructures modular standard, Contraptor construction set, RepLab coordination thread, CKAN/OAD/CrimsonBase data repositories, Dartmouth CRAWDAD wireless archive, and the MakerBot wiki for troubleshooting extruder and Z-axis issues.