- A PubMed paper on traumatic brain injury (PMID 20143955) was retrieved via libgen, pointing to early neurotrauma research of interest to biohackers exploring neural interfaces.  
- Chris_99 located a low-cost flex-PCB vendor (itead, 10 boards for $100) for fabricating a tongue electrode array and discussed safe current-limiting options with ThomasEgi, who recommended op-amp or bipolar-transistor circuits over simple constant-current diodes.  
- ThomasEgi described a personal experiment in which he used an op-amp–based voltage-to-current converter to drive cutaneous receptors on his arm with morse-coded serial data, stressing the importance of precise current control to avoid injury.  
- Kanzure circulated an invitation to SynBio Demo Day (23 Sept 2014, Runway Incubator) showcasing six bio-startups from community labs, including Muufri (yeast-derived milk), HyasynthBio (yeast THC), Kilobaser (benchtop DNA synthesis), and others.  
- A Nature Communications paper on diamondoid–fullerene molecular rectifiers was shared, along with a controversial open-access NeuroQuantology article arguing that photon “collapse” occurs in the retina, not the cortex.  
- Palantir’s internal price list leaked on Hacker News revealed a cost of $141 k per CPU core for its analytics platform, sparking discussion on the secrecy of enterprise biotech software pricing.  
- Ginkgo Bioworks’ new “cultured ingredients” program was highlighted, featuring engineered rose fragrance as its first commercial target.  
- Kanzure curated a set of technical resources: Facebook’s McRouter for memcached scaling, Upverter’s open-source schematic-file converter, Redis-backed Python message queues, CppCon 2014 slide decks, and iOS 8 UI kits.