- Ultrasonic bonding was highlighted as a potentially useful micro-assembly technique for building small-scale hardware or bio-devices, with a Wikipedia link shared for reference.  
- A Wired article on recent advances in prime-number theory was circulated; discussion noted its sensational tone but endorsed the underlying academic references as worthwhile.  
- Ars Technica was praised for quality science coverage, with a 2010 article on “systems and synthetic biology—neither models nor miracles” specifically recommended.  
- A lightweight Python DSL for filtering data was demonstrated: chaining expressions like eq("key", "value").neq(...).or(...) to create reusable boolean filters, inspired by SQLAlchemy’s design.  
- Library Genesis (libgen) was reported to be low on disk space and donations (only ~1 BTC received lifetime), with a call for ~$950 to renew its 3 TB×4 seedbox and ~$1 000 for server upgrades (OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 240 GB + 4 TB HDDs).  
- A paperbot script successfully retrieved an IEEE paper via DOI (10.1109/PLASMA.1996.550928) from libgen, but empty-return bugs were attributed to libgen’s shaky PHP upload pipeline rather than storage limits.