- A proposed DIYbio experiment: hyper-dose a small cohort with dietary extremes (e.g., two sticks of butter per day) and correlate metabolic response data with SNP-chip genotypes to uncover novel gene–diet interactions at low cost.  
- Reference to the “Genomera” project, in which ~20–50 volunteers were recruited to eat large amounts of butter as a crowdsourced nutrition study.  
- Discussion of nootropics: pramiracetam described as “turning you into Spock” (highly logical, emotion-suppressed, motivation-enhanced) and ranked just below phenylpiracetam in potency; noopept also mentioned.  
- Cost of DNA synthesis cited at ~$0.30 per base pair; lament that biological polymerases replicate for “$0/bp” yet cannot be programmed to write arbitrary sequences.  
- Link to 1980s MAPS newsletter paper: “Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming” circulated on Hacker News, reviving historical interest in psychedelics for cognitive enhancement.  
- Shapeways now offers 3-D-printed miniature Theo Jansen “Strandbeests,” including a hamster-powered version, highlighting accessible biomimetic robotics.  
- Boing Boing published the third installment of “Biopunk,” framing DIYbio as “the biotech underground” and prompting debate on the term’s accuracy.  
- Open-source CAD/CFD integration: OpenFOAM coupled with PythonOCC for computational fluid dynamics and geometry modeling, hosted on a surviving Geocities Japan page.