• FundScience.org was highlighted as an early experiment in crowdfunding scientific research; Joseph Jackson had been involved, and an optogenetics design project had been partially financed with 3-D printing listed as the dominant cost driver.

• The channel shared a PDF on “dermal circuitry” (http://fennetic.net/irc/dermal_circuitry.pdf) and discussed the need for watermark-removal tools to facilitate open redistribution of such documents.

• Open-source hardware energy projects were noted, including the Open Source Solar initiative (http://www.opensource-solar.org) presented at CCC Camp 2011.

• Free Stanford online courses—AI-Class, ML-Class, and DB-Class—were announced as immediately available resources for self-directed learning in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and databases.

• Ruby’s AI4R neural-network library (http://ai4r.rubyforge.org/neuralNetworks.html) was introduced as an accessible scripting option for AI experimentation.

• Python was affirmed as the de-facto language for bioinformatics and large-scale biological data processing, with a pointer to the Hyperpolyglot scripting comparison site (http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting) for language feature analysis.

• Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility (≈20 000 employees) was discussed, clarifying that Motorola Solutions remained a separate entity.

• The Blue Brain Project’s website was observed to return 404 errors for its “Where are we today” page, prompting ironic commentary on the project’s visibility.

• A running concern was voiced over the fragmentation of OpenSCAD language derivatives (openscad, pyopenscad, cadmium, etc.) and the lack of a unified tracker for these tools.