- A press release announced plans for the first human head transplant, sparking discussion on organ donation ethics and the feasibility of whole-body transplants.  
- Participants debated how aging differs in the brain versus other tissues, noting that neurons rarely divide and accumulate protein aggregates rather than DNA damage.  
- A porcine-model study on pesticide self-poisoning was shared, highlighting that cyclohexanone solvent—not the active ingredient—was the primary toxicity driver (PMID 22365945).  
- A paper on glyphosate-containing herbicides was discussed, with emphasis on the 15 % surfactant contributing to toxicity beyond glyphosate itself.  
- Links to Yves Couder’s silicon-droplet experiments were posted, illustrating a macroscopic analogue of wave-particle duality and pilot-wave dynamics.  
- The channel’s paperbot was used to retrieve and mirror numerous paywalled articles, including studies on naltrexone for Crohn’s disease, the gut-brain axis, and complementary medicine in IBD.  
- Technical discussion covered open tools for scholarly metadata: crossref.org for DOI metadata, zotero translation-server for JSON extraction, and the need for better PDF manipulation libraries.  
- A merged pull request in the dedrm-ebook-tools GitHub repo was celebrated, reflecting ongoing work to liberate DRM-locked academic content.