- Metformin is being evaluated as a geroprotector; participants reference the 2011 PubMed review “Metformin as a geroprotector” (PMID 21882902) as a starting point for further open-source longevity research.  
- Comparative neuro-anatomy is proposed as a design-mining strategy: studying giraffe, chimpanzee and other mammalian brains to extract cognitive architectures, with pointers to the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neuroscience at GWU and Erich Jarvis’s comparative work.  
- Active space-debris removal is explored through three technical approaches: laser ablation (Ebisuzaki et al. 2015), negative-photophoretic “optical lift,” and Keith Lofstrom’s “Server Sky” concept of smart thinsats that shepherd junk out of crowded orbits.  
- A low-cost DIY dip-probe colorimeter is under design using TOSLINK fiber optics and nanodrop-style sample interfaces; FM-CW laser ranging is discussed as a complementary technique for sub-millimeter liquid assays.  
- Marketing tactics for open-source transfection reagents are dissected, emphasizing value-proposition clarity (cost, reliability, peace-of-mind) and funnel-based outreach to both institutional buyers and individual researchers.  
- Road-mapping resources circulated include the 2007 Foresight Nanotech Roadmap, the DOE/LANL Quantum Computing roadmap, and transcripts from the Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong workshop on segregated witness and security assumptions.  
- “FlatCam” lens-less imaging is introduced: masked-sensor data plus heavy deconvolution can reconstruct focal planes, raising questions about Fourier-space noise and computational load for open-source camera projects.  
- A real-time cryptographic audit of the Craig-Wright-as-Satoshi story reveals forged PGP signatures (key 5EB7CB21 uses post-2008 hash preferences), sparking debate on journalistic ethics, doxxing risks, and the real-world dangers of weak evidence when ~1.1 million BTC are at stake.  
- Google Research’s new quantum-annealing post (http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/12/when-can-quantum-annealing-win.html) is shared; participants weigh D-Wave’s emerging utility against the longer-term promise of gate-model quantum computers.