- A new DIYbio news aggregator (http://bit.ly/diybionews) was launched and updated, and a European article explicitly adopting the term “biopunk” signals the label’s rising mainstream visibility.  
- Bryan (kanzure) is building an open-source NURBS geometry library in Python, wrestling with knot-vector semantics, degree = len(knots) – len(control_points) + 1, and whether curves and surfaces should share a single class hierarchy; screenshots and the underlying code (http://runten.tripod.com/NURBS/Nurbs-0.1.zip) were shared.  
- Participants proposed a $100 k “myostatin-inhibitor pill” prize to incentivize a safer, non-steroidal muscle-gain intervention, debating adult tendon risks observed in murine studies.  
- US actuarial tables were cited showing today’s 10-year-old males projected to live slightly shorter lives than 35- or 55-year-olds, lending actuarial weight to the claim that the current generation may be the first to die younger than its parents.  
- Marshall Savage’s 1992 book “The Millennial Project” (scanned and shared) outlines an audacious eight-step plan for galactic colonization via 100-MW OTEC plants, floating cities (“Aquarius”), and airship logistics for 100 000 colonists, contrasting sharply with today’s modest seasteading prototypes.  
- Real-world OTEC discussion referenced a 15 MW Hawaiian plant and a US-Navy ammonia-fuel prototype, but also highlighted $1.1 B price tags and the seastead.org handbook quip that “nuclear power makes OTEC look easy.”  
- An Arizona adverse-possession experiment was outlined: identify a $1 500-assessed desert parcel owned by an absent Floridian, occupy it for the 2-year statutory period, and offer the owner $10 k for expedited clean title.  
- Forrest Flanagan (_F7_) is negotiating with Alibaba supplier AllPette for $25 digital micropipettes (0.5–1000 µL) to seed a low-cost citizen-science supply store under the Open Science Framework, starting with a test order of six units per volume range.