- A discussion framed reduced-sleep pharmacology (modafinil and unnamed military stimulants) as a practical route to “effective life extension,” with links to U.S. Air Force studies showing 37–40 h alertness with minimal performance loss.  
- kanzure shared a personal archive of longevity papers at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/ and two PDFs on using mammary glands and bladder epithelium as human bioreactors for recombinant-protein production.  
- Participants debated the trade-offs of life-extension without age-reversal, concluding that simply extending lifespan is unattractive unless accompanied by youth preservation.  
- A two-day DIY biotech boot-camp organized by Avery at BOSSLab (Boston) was announced; tuition is $200 and registration is via WePay.  
- The channel crowdsourced a list of open-source CAD tools that support NURBS: OpenCASCADE, BRL-CAD, FreeCAD, HeeksCAD, pythonOCC, ImplicitCAD, and the web-based Shapesmith.  
- Harvard’s “pop-up” micro-robotics process—laser-cut laminate layers that self-fold into insect-scale flying robots—was identified and linked.  
- A 9-minute Vimeo talk titled “DIYbio the Next Frontier” by Hwa Young was circulated, though participants criticized its reliance on MATLAB and questioned MadLab’s claim of 30 000 members.  
- CircuitLab’s cloud-based schematic-rendering pipeline (16 000 SVGs via RabbitMQ and PhantomJS) was noted as an example of browser-driven EDA tooling.