- A discussion questioned whether women carrying two different photorhodopsin genes can actually perceive additional colors or if the extra spectral information is averaged out by the brain.  
- kanzure shared the Intel 4004 die photo (via web.archive.org) as a historical curiosity.  
- The “breeder’s equation” and heritability were debated; pasky argued that rapid reversion to a population mean explains why eugenics fails and why domestic dog breeds quickly return to a generic “wild” form after a few generations of random mating.  
- The death of synthetic-biology entrepreneur Austen Heinz (founder of Cambrian Genomics) at age 31 was reported; sources indicated suicide.  
- Harvard’s “syringe-injectable electronics” paper (Nature Nanotechnology, Liu et al., DOI 10.1038/nnano.2015.115) was circulated, with kanzure noting the authors had tried to keep it under wraps.  
- A ZeroHedge article on “Doomsday Bunkers for Billionaires” was linked as commentary on extreme contingency planning among tech elites.  
- delinquentme asked whether the Molecular Programming project (molecular-programming.org) represents genuinely new developments in the field.