- A technical debate on whole-brain emulation questioned whether sub-molecular resolution is required to capture synaptic state, with counter-arguments favoring epigenetic/protein-expression profiling and noting that axonal arborization patterns are more informative than dendritic morphology for classifying interneurons.  
- Emerging imaging modalities—cryo-EM, serial block-face scanning, cryo-AFM, and adaptive-resolution destructive scanning—were evaluated for preserving and mapping vitrified tissue without fixation artifacts.  
- A Science paper on “A tissue-like printed material” (DOI: 10.1126/science.1233515) was highlighted as a potential route to layer-by-layer construction of vitrified biological systems that could be flash-thawed, integrating synthetic biology with cryonics.  
- Participants created a “Science Defense Force” (SDF) blocklist wiki to catalog IP ranges and user-agent strings used by copyright-enforcement bots and anti-science surveillance, offering nginx configuration snippets and debating distribution via wiki/git versus traditional P2P blocklist formats.  
- Elsevier’s Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry was cited at $6.28 per page versus $0.18/page for the non-profit Journal of the Electrochemical Society, illustrating the economic driver behind open-access activism.  
- Bitcoin mining economics were analyzed: ASIC rigs yielding ~100,000 % arbitrage on electricity, FPGA rigs ~6,500 %, and even aging AMD 5770 GPUs remaining profitable at the then-current Mt. Gox rate of $130 USD/BTC.  
- Practical tooling gaps were identified, including the need for an offline, downloadable database of Digi-Key/Mouser parts and an open alternative to Octopart after API rate-limiting, flagged as a scraping project.