• Mycobacterium vaccae is being investigated as a natural antidepressant: exposure appears to trigger neurogenesis of serotonin- and norepinephrine-producing neurons and may activate novel vagal pathways that relay peripheral inflammation signals to the brain (patent US 2003/0170275).

• Participants debated the feasibility of an open-source “Last Resort” clinic that could replicate ultra-expensive biologics such as Soliris (eculizumab, ~$409 k/year) for under $100 k, noting that monoclonal antibodies are technically straightforward to manufacture.

• The channel analyzed how companies like Alexion finance high-cost drugs by embedding sales reps who identify patients and secure insurance coverage, drawing parallels to hemophilia pricing and speculating on future genome-based underwriting.

• A Git workflow experiment that auto-committed every file change was refined with practical advice on .gitignore, git commit --amend, and git rebase --interactive to squash redundant commits.

• Members clarified that “tooling and setup” costs in hardware startups cover design-specific molds, dies, fixtures, and calibration, illustrating typical cost drivers with examples from the forging industry.

• Shared resources included a vim-like keyboard interface for YouTube (videotop on GitHub) and high-resolution microscopy down to single-cell level via ecoscope.com’s virtual microscope.

• A debugging session traced a Python urllib3 test failure to two concurrent test processes racing to bind port 18080, resolved with strace, netstat, and discussion of restricted /proc visibility under containers or rootkits.

• Frustration with pastebin usability led to critiques of paste.ubuntu.com, Launchpad’s line-number injection, and a one-liner SSH alias for piping text directly to a personal web directory.