- Colorado’s Amendment 64 Task Force report (PDF) proposes initial rules for recreational cannabis, explicitly allowing high-potency concentrates like “shatter oil” and “wax”; channel members plan controlled productivity experiments with specific THC:CBD ratios.  
- Participants debate pharmacology of ultra-concentrated cannabis, noting that a single “dab” of shatter oil delivers desired effects without the ritual overhead of joints or bongs.  
- BBC Breakfast features 17-year-old Fred Turner, UK Young Engineer 2013, demonstrating two DIY PCR machines, underscoring the mainstream visibility of garage biotech.  
- The Plover stenography project is building a USB/Bluetooth chorded keyboard that outputs standard text, aiming to democratize high-speed steno typing beyond court reporters.  
- Skeptical discussion rejects claims that microgauss magnetic fields influence cognition, comparing them to cold-fusion rhetoric and noting geomagnetic fluctuations lack the field strength or slew rate for neural stimulation.  
- Michael Persinger’s “global consciousness” hypothesis—linking human minds via Earth’s geomagnetic field—is criticized as fringe neuroscience often uncritically adopted by transhumanists.  
- Participants lament Google Groups/Facebook dominance for technical discourse and endorse Discourse forum software as a superior alternative for open-source community discussions.  
- A Nature paper (nature09464.pdf) and a PubMed query for “Ubiad1 k2” are requested via paperbot, indicating ongoing interest in high-impact cognition research and the Ubiad1 gene’s role in vitamin-K2 biosynthesis relevant to mitochondrial aging.