- A crowdfunding project on Experiment.com proposes dietary A1/A2E supplementation to shift human vision into the near-infrared; channel members debated the trade-off that red-cone acuity might decline because some cones would now respond to IR instead of red light.  
- juri__ demonstrated a two-microwave aluminum-casting workflow that turns 3-D-printed positives into metal parts and plans to automate the rig before adapting it for low-cost bioprinting hardware.  
- ebowden shared an experimental anti-inflammatory stack for severe carpal-tunnel syndrome combining the phytochemical Shikon (a TNF-α inhibitor) and C₆₀ fullerene in olive oil, citing ongoing rat studies suggesting high potency with minimal side effects.  
- Frustration with cloud-locked fitness data led bbrittain to develop an Android GPS logger that stores location, weight, body-fat, and sleep data locally, while kanzure keeps multi-year quantified-self datasets in a giant YAML file parsed by cyaml/Python.  
- kanzure proposed using mitmproxy plus the Google Play protobuf library to intercept and inspect all telemetry an Android handset uploads, enabling full audit and replication of QS data streams without cloud dependency.  
- Illumina GA2x sequencers may soon appear on the surplus market, offering an opportunity for open-source flow-cell reverse engineering and cheap high-throughput sequencing.  
- The human genome contains exactly 2,022,025,862 unique 18-base-pair (18-mer) sequences, a reference figure useful for genomic design and engineering projects.