- A Hackaday post on a “cheap and easy magnetic DNA separation method” was circulated, highlighting community interest in low-cost DIY genomics tools.  
- A YouTube demo from spurserh’s lab showed a pancake Geiger tube acting as a simple long-exposure X-ray imager, illustrating ultra-low-cost radiation imaging.  
- Discussion of a 2015 claim that a C. elegans connectome was “uploaded into a LEGO robot” was dismissed as “10,000 % breathless bullshit,” underscoring skepticism toward sensationalist neuroscience reporting.  
- Jenda` shared personal experience of altered balance perception after a 75-minute awake MRI scan and linked the open-source gr-MRI software-defined-radio MRI package (PMC4996692).  
- A comprehensive survey of open-source molecular-modeling software was posted (opensourcemolecularmodeling.github.io), prompting commentary on the sheer number of available programs.  
- CaptHindsight posted recent Science and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists articles on DNA-origami robots and associated biosecurity risks, along with Phys.org coverage of nanotweezers for sub-micrometer fluid manipulation.  
- nmz787 reported that an unpacked fiber-laser system remains in a dehumidified garage with power available, estimating “a few solid days of activity” to bring it online.  
- kanzure circulated a 2018 paper on “Future technological directions in Bitcoin,” covering upcoming protocol and infrastructure developments.