- Autoprotocol, a JSON-based open standard for describing biology lab protocols, is already executable on Transcriptic’s cloud robotic wet-lab (liquid handlers, PCR, plate readers, robotic arm); the full specification, Python library, documentation, and community site are publicly available at autoprotocol.org and on GitHub.  
- Transcriptic’s pay-per-minute pricing for custom protocols was judged too expensive for routine academic research, yet still attractive to “virtual pharma” startups that outsource all wet-lab work.  
- Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 batch opened applications; participants were urged to target the “Requests for Startups” list (AI, biotech, Hollywood 2.0) as fertile ground for transhumanist-oriented companies.  
- A speculative business model for a “boutique designer-baby firm” was proposed, in which parents pre-pay years in advance for long-term genetic trait planning and iterative embryo selection.  
- Open-source EEG/BCI hardware options were compared: OpenBCI clones on eBay/AliExpress, HiBrain, and a 64-channel OpenEEG variant were evaluated for channel density and sampling strategies needed to capture covert “mental audio/self-talk.”  
- Adderall’s 50/50 amphetamine/dextroamphetamine ratio was explained as an unavoidable racemic consequence of synthesis rather than deliberate formulation, while Shire’s extended-release bead patent still blocks generic equivalents.  
- A 1968 cryobiology paper reporting two of fourteen dogs surviving extracorporeal kidney freezing to –80 °C with DMSO and microwave thawing was retrieved via paperbot and archived on diyhpl.us.  
- The Kickstarter campaign for “PyImageSearch Gurus” was criticized for budgeting donor funds to license multi-user IPython Notebook software that is already free and open-source through SageMath Cloud.