- A participant floated the idea of launching a Kickstarter campaign, noting that trivial hardware projects (e.g., “an LED and a diode on a circuit board”) have raised thousands of dollars, implying that more ambitious open-transhumanist hardware could do even better.

- The channel debated working definitions of intelligence; one concise proposal offered was “cortical intelligence can be summed up as the ability to predict the future.”

- Discussion linked to two external articles on the ethics and regulation of “animal-human hybrids” and stem-cell research, with participants questioning how much DNA refactoring is required before engineered sequences cease to be considered “human.”

- NPR’s “When Patents Attack” episode (podcast: http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/441.mp3) and a companion blog post (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/22/138576167/when-patents-attack) were shared as critiques of Intellectual Ventures and the broader patent system.

- MIT’s Genr8 generative-design project (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/emergentDesign/genr8/) was highlighted as an example of non-code repositories for architecture and interior design, prompting a request for similar open design databases.

- A Discover Magazine article on avoiding a repeat of the Space Shuttle program’s mistakes (http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jul-aug/22-how-to-avoid-repeating-debacle-of-space-shuttle) was circulated, underscoring ongoing concerns about sustainable space-transport development.

- Links to open-source and interactive demos were posted, including an HTML5 “Infinite Mario” clone (https://github.com/robertkleffner/mariohtml5) and Bret Victor’s Tangle library for explorable explanations (http://worrydream.com/Tangle/).

- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/e1m1s) was noted as a resource for fabrication and process videos relevant to DIY bio- and hardware hackers.