- Discussion of congenital disorders of amino-acid metabolism as potentially informative SNPs for metabolic engineering or bio-hacking interventions.  
- Real-time commentary on the successful Falcon Heavy test flight: two side cores landed, center core missed the drone ship after running out of TEA-TEB relight fluid, and a Tesla Roadster was placed into a heliocentric orbit with live “Starman” video feed.  
- Brief note that the Human Genome Project received the 2017 Prince Mahidol Award (medicine category) from Thailand—participants observed that such honors are typically granted decades after the fact and appreciated that the award recognized the entire consortium rather than a few figureheads.  
- Ongoing legal saga of nsh: UK court blocked US extradition, but the same charges may now be prosecuted in the UK; nsh prefers a short UK sentence over risking additional US charges and refuses to confess or travel to the US for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement.  
- Josiah Zayner’s Facebook post (linked) announced that bio-artist Ani Liu (“hanley”) and others are joining his “circus freaks” bio-performance collective, signaling continued expansion of open, theatrical biohacking culture.