- Sci-Hub’s original domain (sci-hub.org) now redirects to a Chinese forum (boxuesky.com) that sells paywall passwords for $150–$600, highlighting the escalating arms race around open-access paper distribution.  
- A public, searchable archive of every PDF automatically captured by the #hplusroadmap paperbot is hosted at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/, serving as a de-facto open-access repository.  
- Stress-testing of the paperbot revealed that most Springer links return HTTP 500 errors, while PubMed and Elsevier URLs reliably yield raw text dumps, illustrating the fragility of automated academic-scraping pipelines.  
- Early consumer health-telemetry was exemplified by USB-data-logging electronic cigarettes (e.g., Joyetech eVic), noted as a precursor to broader personal bio-tracking.  
- Participants argued that “overpopulation” is primarily a distribution problem, not a resource problem, and that fertility naturally declines with affluence, framing future demographic debates.  
- Egg freezing, surrogacy, and 3-parent IVF were discussed as practical technologies to decouple career timing from reproductive biology, despite persistent cultural resistance.  
- Twin-study data indicating 25 % heritability of optimism sparked meta-commentary on the irony of tenured professors whose research agenda is “how to be happy.”  
- A meta-analysis of life-satisfaction surveys concluded that Confucian engagement is more conducive to modern happiness than Taoist withdrawal, influencing transhumanist views on well-being.  
- The 2011 paper “Finding the Key to Happy Aging: A Day Reconstruction Study of Happiness” was successfully retrieved, while two Springer papers on hedonism and “art-of-living” remained inaccessible, underscoring repository gaps.  
- A short documentary on the future of OLED and flexible-display technology was shared at http://vimeo.com/46264514, alongside renewed interest in the 2010 AI documentary “Plug and Pray,” which profiles Ray Kurzweil and Joseph Weizenbaum.