- A new working definition of intelligence was proposed: “the ability to reveal hidden affordances of the world,” illustrated by a crow discovering it can use a twig to extract a nut.  
- Anders Sandberg’s e-mail excerpt framed superintelligences as entities whose actions and motivations would appear as arbitrary and opaque to humans as human behavior does to animals, emphasizing the alienness of post-human cognition.  
- kanzure recommended PhantomJS over Selenium for browser automation and pointed to his own Google Play API wrapper (https://github.com/kanzure/googleplay-api) as a way to bypass Google registration hurdles.  
- NASA’s Europa constraint-based planning and scheduling system (http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/planning-and-scheduling/) was highlighted as a useful tool for resource-allocation problems.  
- Nature’s entire podcast archive—including full transcripts for science episodes—was surfaced as an open educational resource (http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/archive.html).  
- A Cell Reports paper showed that a single transcription factor (OCT4) plus SMAD+GSK-3 inhibition can reprogram human blood cells directly into induced neural progenitor cells (iNPCs) with both CNS and PNS developmental potential, offering a patient-specific platform for disease modeling and high-throughput neurotoxicity screening.  
- The channel noted the firing of 31 editors at an open-access publisher (ScienceMag coverage), underscoring ongoing tensions over editorial independence in open science publishing.