- A Hatsune-Miku-sponsored racing team was shared as an example of pop-culture-meets-tech marketing (YouTube playlist provided).  
- delinquentme sought fully on-chip microfluidic designs that eliminate external syringe pumps, proposing a user-depressable membrane as an integrated, reproducible pump for crystallization serial-dilution chips.  
- nmz787 and chris_99 compared high-speed mixed-signal hardware: the LPC4370 MCU’s integrated 12-bit 80 MSPS ADC versus discrete 16-bit 100 MSPS TI ADC and 14-bit 30 MSPS Analog Devices DAC for real-time 2 MHz pulse peak-detection, debating FPGA throughput (Cyclone IV @ 400 MHz) and oversampling trade-offs.  
- Discussion of Unix “magic” debugging folklore referenced the classic “plaid-shirt crashes video encoder” story from David Agans’s book “Debugging” and the Jargon File.  
- Post-Snowden, Retroshare was praised as a practical route to get non-technical friends and family using strong public-key crypto for everyday communication.  
- kanzure and yashgaroth outlined an open-source path to synthesize the anti-TNF drug etanercept: standard CHO cell line, fusion-protein expression, and Science Exchange CRO services, noting the modest 25–50 mg/week human dosage.  
- paperbot served two IEEE/ACM papers on request, demonstrating the channel’s automated access to paywalled literature via libgen/scimag.