• A 2015 paper introduced an updated empirical constraint on the prevalence of technological species in the universe, refining estimates for extraterrestrial civilizations with new astrophysical and biological parameters.

• The DE-STAR project outlines a modular phased-array of kilowatt-class, photovoltaic-powered lasers designed to vaporize or deflect hazardous near-Earth asteroids via laser ablation; UCSB Deep Space group papers provide orbital simulations and experimental validation for directed-energy asteroid deflection, de-spinning, and space-debris mitigation.

• Jeff Hawkins’ 2015 theory “Why neurons have thousands of synapses” proposes a neocortical mechanism for storing temporal sequences, while an agi.io blog post offers open-source SVG diagrams and code for a thalamocortical architecture model aimed at more neuroanatomically realistic AGI designs.

• The Cognitive Consilience project released a high-resolution brain-circuit diagram scraped from Google Maps tiles and reassembled into 11 MB JPEG and 70 MB PNG images, accompanied by metadata tables detailing neuron types and literature references.

• Two arXiv papers (1411.4359 and 1512.01521) explore the cosmological signatures of “aggressively expanding civilizations,” analyzing their visible size and geometry at cosmological distances.

• A Nature Communications paper (doi:10.1038/ncomms3706) describes a fiber-drawing method that thermally draws centimetre-scale PMMA preforms with embedded indium wires into kilometre-long terahertz metamaterial fibers; channel participants discussed adapting this low-temperature process for nanofactory bootstrapping on RepRap-scale hardware using solder instead of indium.

• A JoVE protocol video and Sci-Hub link provide step-by-step fabrication instructions for these metamaterial fibers, highlighting Zeonex29 polymer for low THz absorption, while additional papers extend the technique to multimodal optogenetic neural interfaces and MRI contrast-enhancing metasurfaces.

• A curated GitHub repository of “AI-MicroStructure,” “micro-biological,” and “micro-neuro” JSON datasets was highlighted as an emerging intersection of micro-scale biology and AI research.

• The channel’s complete 2008–2016 IRC log archive was checksummed and released as a compressed tarball of over 3,000 daily files, offering a longitudinal record of open-source transhumanist discourse.