- The Planetary Resources ARKYD Kickstarter nanosatellite was discussed, including a humorous promotional video featuring “Klingons” and skepticism about putting an external display on a satellite.  
- A 2013 Science paper on the “BigBrain” ultrahigh-resolution 3-D human brain model (20 µm voxel, 1 TB dataset) was shared; participants criticized the decade-long effort for still not resolving individual cells.  
- Links to several technical papers were retrieved via paperbot: a Nature Communications article on 9 nm-feature 3-D deep sub-diffraction optical beam lithography, a JAMA study correlating gait speed with survival in older adults, and older papers on PEG-drug conjugation.  
- Practical lab-equipment questions arose, such as whether –80 °C freezers rely on anything beyond standard compressors.  
- A brief discussion on web-scraping tools covered PhantomJS, node-phantom, and Chimera as headless WebKit options for programmatic page interaction.  
- A striking epidemiological finding was circulated: Swedish research showing that parents who “clean” pacifiers by sucking them reduce their children’s later eczema by ~60 % and asthma by ~90 %, prompting jokes about “spit-based allergy prevention.”