- Two new pharmacology and expertise-performance papers were mirrored to the channel’s open archive: a Wiley review on nootropic drug mechanisms (10.1002/phar.1187) and a Sage article on reproducing expert-level performance in laboratory settings.  
- A practical fabrication thread explored using laser-printed toner masks on Shrinky-Dink thermoplastic to create PDMS microfluidic masters; contributors noted that toner clumping during anisotropic shrinkage can actually self-form the required channel ridges, referencing Michelle Khine’s prior work.  
- kanzure released a curated, freely downloadable trove of microfluidics literature at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/microfluidics/ to support DIY device builders.  
- pdfparanoia, the open-source DRM-stripping tool for academic PDFs, added support for Royal Society of Chemistry journals via GitHub pull request #26.  
- A 1993 “Glove Talk II” demo resurfaced, showing real-time neural-network-driven speech synthesis from data-glove hand gestures, illustrating early BCI-style gesture-to-speech mapping.  
- The community began polling for names for a new East-Bay DIYbio lab, with tongue-in-cheek proposals such as “Free Science Bay Area Institute – FBI,” reflecting its open-science ethos.