- A ketogenic-diet study (1983) was circulated showing that chronic ketosis without caloric restriction preserves sub-maximal exercise capacity while reducing carbohydrate oxidation, and a 2012 paper reported that elite gymnasts on a ketogenic diet maintained strength performance.  
- Discussion of Attila Csordas’ “lava-amp” project raised safety concerns about possible burns from the open-hardware PCR device.  
- The U.S. government was said to have lost the original schematics for the A-10 Thunderbolt II close-air-support aircraft and for MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles, highlighting issues of long-term technical documentation.  
- A Reddit link showcased a newly implanted prosthetic cornea, illustrating current advances in ocular prosthetics.  
- RFID surveillance speculation included a user’s experiment microwaving a credit card to reveal and extract its embedded antenna, prompting jokes about detecting implanted chips.  
- The Telome Indiegogo campaign for consumer telomere-length testing was noted, along with criticism that its website appeared to copy the design template of charitywater.org.  
- A security blog post detailing a WebKit-based attack on GitHub was shared as an example of contemporary web-vulnerability research.  
- The channel’s paperbot was used to retrieve several pay-walled articles, exposing gaps in automated PDF translation and prompting questions about automating recompilation of its components.