- Metformin was discussed as a possible geroprotector (anti-aging drug), with participants noting its tendency to cause hypoglycemia when combined with alcohol and the risk of over-dosing insulin.  
- A CNT/PVA composite material was reported to reach an electrical conductivity of 747 S cm⁻¹, prompting a brief tutorial on the siemens (S) as the SI unit of conductance.  
- The “Glowing Plant” Kickstarter has re-branded as a startup and is now selling $1 shares on Wefunder, drawing criticism for vaporware history.  
- Sci-Hub’s new Telegram bot for paper delivery was highlighted; the channel compared it to the older #icanhazpdf hashtag used by academics on Twitter.  
- A Medium post analyzing 30 years of San Francisco rental ads was shared as an example of large-scale data transcription yielding insights into housing-price trends.  
- Cryonics quality control was debated, with warnings that the industry could become a “lemon market” because no one can yet revive patients to verify service quality; California Cryonics Society and Cryonics Institute were cited as problematic cases.  
- The arXiv preprint “Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence” (1605.02817) was circulated and mocked for omitting the tongue-in-cheek suggestion of “upload kanzure.”  
- kanzure recommended jotmuch (https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch) as a personal bookmark indexer with keyword search, reporting 5,006 indexed bookmarks and a goal of returning to 50 k.  
- A Bitcoin-dev mailing-list post on “Making UTXO Set Growth Irrelevant With Low-Latency Delayed TXO Commitments” was shared, along with a link to a partial transcript of a 2016-04-11 Lightning Network presentation.