• Aubrey de Grey’s new TEDxOxford talk (18 min) was circulated as an update to his earlier TED presentation on life-extension science.  
• DIYbio newcomers were directed to a curated list of starter projects at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diytranshuman_projects.v4.html covering microfluidics, tissue culture, rocketry, machining and programming.  
• A $5 webcam can be converted to a 50 × 45 µm field-of-view microscope by inverting its lens; the Hackteria project was cited as a model for adding Arduino-controlled automated stage tracking.  
• Jonathan Cline’s CPAN module “Robotics” (Tecan liquid-handling robot control) was recommended to Perl-savvy biohackers as a practical entry point into lab automation.  
• Discussion of an “H+ boot-camp” concept that replaces lectures with hands-on skill-building in tissue culture, programming, machining and “asskicking.”  
• Critique of Humanity+ as primarily a marketing organization rather than a source of actionable transhumanist research or engineering.  
• Lego-based mechanical computation was linked (Hacker News item) as an example of low-cost, accessible hardware experimentation.  
• Openscad developers were noted to be dropping the Qt dependency, prompting a wish-list for further slimming of graphics and visualization requirements.