• A study reported in Scientific American shows that the African spiny mouse can regenerate full-thickness skin wounds without scarring, demonstrating that non-scar, non-muscular tissue regeneration exists in mammals.  
• The Gada Prize (gadaprize.org) for RepRap improvements appears stalled: the website is broken, no formal submission process was followed, and the judging pool has not reported any entries, leaving the $20 k–$40 k awards in limbo.  
• Cyagen advertises turnkey transgenic-mouse production: $2 250, 4–8-week delivery, using FVB or C57BL/6J donor eggs and CD1 surrogates, highlighting the commoditization of custom laboratory animals.  
• Discussion of Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric jump centered on whether he truly broke the sound barrier and the technical limits of civilian GPS units, which shut down near Mach 1, forcing reliance on military-grade or alternative sensors.  
• Channel members debated chocolate’s correlation with Nobel laureates per capita, noting that higher-quality-of-life nations likely consume more luxury goods and produce more laureates, rather than chocolate causing genius.  
• Pearl Biotech (Tito Jankowski) once sold an open-source “gel box” for electrophoresis, but the product page is no longer prominent; comparisons were made to newer DIY Blue-LED transilluminator kits from IO Rodeo.  
• Maltego was mentioned as a reconnaissance tool for mapping relationships among people, domains, and infrastructure, complementing whois and Google-analytics-based stalking services like whorush.com.