- A DIY-bio group is developing vivid red and fluorescent-orange fungal pigments from Laetiporus sulphureus, storing backup cultures on frozen agar to fight contamination.  
- Participants debated the “decline effect” in science, citing confirmation bias and software bugs as more likely causes than paranormal explanations.  
- The channel announced Marcin Jakubowski (Open Source Ecology) as a new TED Fellow, with coverage in English and Spanish blogs on open-source farm equipment.  
- A v0.01 specification for SKDB (open-source hardware packaging) is being drafted; it will use YAML/Git, OpenSCAD as the preferred CAD engine, and QR-coded physical labels linking to canonical Git repos.  
- Octopart now hosts Digi-Key’s full catalog and is soliciting manufacturer data feeds to deliver component outlines directly into EDA tools.  
- NASA’s NTRS archive was highlighted for lunar-regolith processing papers, especially report 20100030350 on pulsed-fluidized-bed oxygen extraction for ISRU hardware.  
- HplusMagazine.com reported 413 unique authors across ~1,040 articles but only ~140 registered commenters, illustrating a long-tail content strategy and high crawler traffic.  
- Links circulated include HighlightCam (video summarization startup), gitduino.com (planned open-hardware version-control tool), and DIY-bio teaching spaces such as All Hands Active in Ann Arbor.