• OpenWorm released PyOpenWorm, a Python API that lets researchers query the complete C. elegans connectome and anatomy with one-liners like `net.aneuron('AVAL').receptors()`, aiming to standardize data access for computational-biology and BCI projects.  
• Human trials of myostatin-blocking therapies were halted after subjects developed Ebola-like symptoms (gum bleeding); meanwhile, DIY guides and genetic-modification notes for myostatin inhibition were circulated on diyhpl.us/wiki/myostatin.  
• A technical thread on cardiovascular disease argued that arterial plaque is driven by apolipoprotein-B100 on LDL particles, not cholesterol itself, and that statins rarely reduce overall mortality—highlighting the gap between pathology and etiology.  
• delinquentme proposed isolating whole extracellular-matrix proteins via 20 nm filtration and 7 THz HPLC for 3-D-printed tissue scaffolds, while others countered that $10/kg bovine collagen or virus-free Matrigel are more pragmatic starting materials.  
• Daeken successfully implanted an NFC tag in his hand, spurring renewed discussion of subdermal biohacker devices and their security implications.  
• kanzure circulated a draft white-paper on a “Purely P2P crypto-currency with finite mini-blockchain” (bitfreak.info/pp2p-ccmbc-rev1.pdf) as a lightweight alternative to ever-growing blockchains.  
• The group weighed Detroit’s river port access against coastal container-off-loading advantages while planning logistics for an open hardware lab, illustrating practical constraints on distributed manufacturing.  
• A nootropics thread compared personal experiences with Adderall, Vyvanse, and piracetam, and kanzure revealed an abandoned “drugstackscrapers” price-scraping engine for supplement sourcing.  
• Participants dissected electrolyte supplementation science, concluding that modern high-sodium, low-magnesium/potassium diets drive hypertension and that excess oral magnesium is largely self-limiting via diarrhea and renal excretion.