- The channel critiqued the hype cycle around 3-D-printed food as a silver bullet for world hunger, using a Quartz article as a case study of over-promising in additive manufacturing.  
- Technical debugging of pay-wall scraping revealed that Wiley Online Library’s iframe-embedded PDFs require headless-browser automation (PhantomJS) or lxml-based link extraction to retrieve full-text papers.  
- A debate on long-term scientific software sustainability highlighted Python’s API churn versus the perceived stability of C, Haskell, and even Perl, with NanoEngineer-1 cited as an example of fragile, untested code.  
- Participants explored open-source alternatives to proprietary ECAD workflows after Upverter.com added Eagle 6 import, questioning whether lossless round-trip conversion between formats is feasible.  
- WHO’s warning that patent disputes are delaying NCoV diagnostics triggered discussion on how IP regimes obstruct rapid global health responses.  
- The group proposed replacing static cold storage of donor hearts with continuous perfusion “pods,” citing canine kidneys kept viable for 8 days via hypothermic Plasma Protein Fraction perfusion and noting CPB cases sustaining patients for 16–31 days without a heart.  
- Concerns about “postperfusion syndrome”—transient neurocognitive deficits linked to cardiopulmonary bypass—were raised as a potential barrier to long-term organ perfusion.  
- A concrete project idea emerged: build open-source networked organ chambers to keep excised organs alive, framed as an alternative to DNA synthesis projects.  
- The SICP principle of “design by wishful thinking” was recommended for bio-engineering: write high-level code assuming ideal primitives, then iteratively implement the missing components.  
- A link to the essay “The Paradox of the Proof” on Mochizuki’s ABC conjecture claim was shared, emphasizing the value of deep, foundational study—Mochizuki reportedly read core texts “from beginning to end” as an undergraduate.