• Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan is reportedly using a rotating pool of EZproxy credentials rather than a single Elsevier dump to keep the site alive from Kuala Lumpur, and the channel maintains an updated master list of mirrors for Sci-Hub, LibGen, CyberLeninka, and other open-access repositories.

• Graziano’s 2002 motor-cortex study showed that half-second microstimulation in monkeys evokes complex, goal-directed gestures (e.g., hand-to-mouth feeding), overturning simplistic “one-neuron-one-muscle” models and tracing back to 1887 cortical-mapping experiments.

• A 2015 open-access Hindawi review on phytochemicals that modulate neurotrophins and neurodegeneration was circulated, alongside anecdotal evidence that nefiracetam plus picamilon can blunt cocaine comedown symptoms.

• New virus-tracing data reveal direct, multisynaptic projections from motor cortex to the kidney and extensive cerebellar outputs to prefrontal and parietal cortices, challenging the classical view of the cerebellum as purely motor and suggesting expanded roles in cognition and emotion.

• Diffusion-tractography studies now allow non-invasive mapping of cerebello-pallidal and subthalamo-cerebellar circuits in living humans, enabling in-vivo investigation of previously inaccessible networks.

• Channel members debated quantifying “information processing” in the “principle of proper mass,” proposed evolutionary pressure on primate motor cortex to reduce lethal arboreal-leaping errors, and favored taxpayer-funding and patent-system critiques over profit-margin arguments against paywalls.

• A reusable sugar-based polymer that flocculates contaminants for rapid water purification was highlighted as a low-cost filtration technology, while users discussed using university NMR or GC/MS services to verify the purity of commercial nootropics after reports of contaminated batches.