- A BBC article was shared describing a new process that converts atmospheric CO₂ into carbon nanofibres, potentially offering a scalable carbon-sequestration material.  
- MIRI (SingInst) was noted to have published a 2010 paper on toxoplasmosis and its possible influence on human risk-assessment and AI-safety-relevant behavior (“Problem-Class Dominance”).  
- Whistled languages were highlighted via an Ars Technica piece and a Current Biology paper showing that they do not exhibit the typical left-hemisphere dominance seen in spoken language, suggesting alternative neural processing pathways.  
- A debate arose over an “IoT + blockchain” filament project; kanzure argued the blockchain layer is unnecessary for merely verifying sensor data delivery, while nmz787 defended it as a tamper-evident log.  
- The upcoming Scaling Bitcoin 2015 workshop agenda was linked, listing technical papers on block-size, network-layer improvements, and consensus mechanisms.  
- A LessWrong comment claiming “20 % of the population is immune to exercise” was circulated, prompting discussion on genetic non-responders to training stimuli.  
- abetusk posted a cluster of technical links: MIT’s COB-tree paper on cache-oblivious B-trees, the rolling-hash Wikipedia entry, a Nature Biotechnology article on high-throughput sequencing, and a Homolog.us bioinformatics tutorial.  
- dingo and kanzure briefly discussed mining git commit statistics and crafting concise LinkedIn recommendations, illustrating informal community knowledge-sharing around software metrics.