- President Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) was announced, featuring DARPA and a goal to cut design-build-test cycles for manufactured goods by up to 5×, explicitly linked to the AVM (Adaptive Vehicle Make) program.  
- A 60 Minutes segment on “superior autobiographical memory” prompted discussion; the 2006 Neurocase paper on Jill Price was shared as the canonical study of the phenomenon.  
- Cathal Garvey’s 5-minute Ignite talk on DIYbio was circulated: http://igniteshow.com/videos/diybio.  
- A solar-powered 3-D printer that fuses Egyptian sand into glass objects was highlighted: http://gizmodo.com/5815588/3d-printer-harnesses-the-sun-to-transform-egyptian-sand-into-glass.  
- Recent neurostimulation findings were posted: non-primary motor areas (Brodmann 6 & 8) can activate hand muscles as fast as or faster than M1 via transcranial magnetic stimulation, reported in Human Brain Mapping.  
- Focused-ultrasound neuromodulation resources were collected, including the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (http://fusfoundation.org) and new 2011 papers showing region-specific brain activity and neurotransmitter-level modulation.  
- A comprehensive polymerase database from EBI was shared: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/cgi-bin/enzymes/GetPage.pl?ec_number=2.7.7.-.