- 33C3 (Chaos Communication Congress) live-streams and schedule were shared: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/, https://dashboard.congress.ccc.de/, http://streaming.media.ccc.de/33c3.  
- A Nature Physics article defending METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was linked: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n10/full/nphys3897.html.  
- Critique of impact-factor culture in science: a blog post argued that today’s incentives would prevent a modern Hodgkin & Huxley from publishing a foundational 120-page study, noting page-charge costs of ~$2 k/page.  
- A Craigslist job ad seeking CRISPR experience was mocked for its vagueness (“yo dawg have you used one of those crispr kits before?”).  
- Kriging/Gaussian-process regression was introduced as a spatial-statistics tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging.  
- Discussion of the VR game “Fantastic Contraption” centered on its large physical-space requirements and lack of global scaling to fit smaller rooms.