• A 2009 thesis on “Low-Energy Defibrillation Using Resonant Drift Pacing” was highlighted; it links single-cell electrophysiology models to tissue-level finite-element meshes and offers experimentally predictive insights into nerve behavior (PDF: http://www.maths.liv.ac.uk/~vadim/theses/Morgan.pdf).

• Bill Buxton’s multitouch history page (http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html) was shared, noting the 1985 “Haptic Lens” clay-like deformable multi-touch tablet and the idea of replicating it with a “soy-sauce-in-a-bag” pressure sensor.

• The University of Washington’s open 3-D printing resource site (http://open3dp.me.washington.edu/) was posted as a practical tool for DIY bio- and hardware hackers.

• A debate erupted over whether transhumanist enhancements should create “social obligations” or peer pressure to adopt them; participants weighed coercion, ostracism, and opt-in ethics in relation to deodorant use, mental-health meds, and future intelligence upgrades.

• A new framing of the Singularity was proposed: rather than humans creating a singularity, humans themselves may be a by-product of an already-ongoing, long-term singularity process; 1968 was jokingly floated as a possible inflection point.

• Nature News coverage of a pending geoengineering experiment (http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/05/geoengineering_experiment_read_1.html) drew criticism of the ETC Group as anti-transhumanist and anti-synthetic-biology.

• David Orban’s Singularity University session in Teleplace (May 11) was announced; Giulio Prisco was asked whether the talk would be recorded.

• A side discussion on Lisp’s declining Google Trends curve referenced Paul Graham’s “Beating the Averages” essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) and Clojure/Incanter as modern Lisp tools for metaprogramming and data analysis.