• The Palo Alto Longevity Prize was announced: a $1 million competition focused on “ending aging” by restoring homeostatic capacity and extending healthy lifespan, with the sponsor pledging to contribute an existing pool of relevant IP to accelerate commercialization.  
• A Kickstarter campaign for the “VEST” sensory-substitution wearable was shared, aiming to turn sound into patterns of vibration on the torso to assist the deaf; the Eagleman Lab 2011 paper on synesthesia-driven sensory substitution was also linked.  
• Discussion of open-hardware mobile devices: Google’s Project Ara modular phone (running a modified Linaro Android) was introduced, alongside skepticism about Google control; interest was expressed in fully open SDR phones and Osmocom-based firmware replacements.  
• Vanderbilt’s “organ-on-a-chip” research was highlighted in a short video, illustrating advances in micro-physiological systems for drug testing and disease modeling.  
• Clarithromycin was noted anecdotally as an off-label treatment for excessive daytime sleepiness, offering wakefulness benefits distinct from classical stimulants but accompanied by gastrointestinal side effects and dysgeusia.  
• Paperbot served numerous paywalled articles on request, including studies on nanoparticle biodistribution, Alzheimer’s disease, spike-timing-dependent plasticity for single-trial robot learning, and Neural Computation papers, underscoring the channel’s routine use of DIY/libgen mirrors for open-access literature.