- A 2009 paper “When does a physical system compute?” was revisited to frame criteria for treating biological or unconventional physical processes as legitimate computational substrates, with implications for wetware and bio-computing.  
- Early visual-cortex decoding work was highlighted via a Technocalypse YouTube clip showing cat brain activity reconstructed into video, predating later fMRI-based image reconstruction experiments.  
- Participants compared additive-manufactured piezocomposite ultrasound transducer arrays against simpler “dice-and-fill” fabrication methods for building high-resolution, open-source ultrasound imaging devices.  
- A Nature study on panda-rabbit-cat interspecies embryo transfer (panda nuclei → rabbit oocytes → cat wombs) was discussed as a proof-of-concept for chimeric cloning and cross-species gestational surrogacy.  
- The idea of a deliberately maximally insecure public server—an always-online host that executes any submitted code—was proposed as a living lab for studying emergent malware, spam, and self-organizing software ecosystems.  
- Sacha Chua’s open, granular quantified-self time-tracking graphs were examined as a model for reproducible personal-analytics experiments and open-data productivity research.  
- Young-mouse blood’s rejuvenation of old mice was cited as evidence against purely damage-based aging theories, with emphasis on systemic circulation rather than simple transfusions and the need for blood-bank age metadata.  
- An ACS Nano paper on artificial peroxisomes—engineered organelles that scavenge reactive oxygen species—was discussed, focusing on their clustering behavior during mitosis to protect nuclear DNA.