- Thailand’s 2015 IVF law now bars foreigners from gender selection, surrogacy, and egg donation, driving “medical superhuman tourism” to Cambodia’s Royal Phnom Penh Hospital, which still advertises PGD/PGS services.  
- Chinese demand for IVF/PGD is coordinated in QQ groups called “Thai test tube,” the ivfbbs.com forum, and a Baidu Tieba board, illustrating how regulatory arbitrage is organized online.  
- A VoxEU study on the 1942 U.S. Book Republication Program shows that suspending copyright on German scientific works cut book prices 25 % and accelerated downstream citations, framing open-access as a transhumanist accelerant.  
- The Nautilus article “Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming” and an NEJM opinion piece “Compelling Reasons for Repairing Human Germlines” were circulated as mainstream defenses of human germline engineering and cognitive enhancement.  
- DIY lab hardware links included a $486 portable laminar-flow hood on Amazon (as a still-air-box upgrade) and the MappyDot Plus lidar module for low-cost robotics and automation.  
- Cockroach “milk” crystals (Diploptera punctata) were highlighted as a nutrient-dense, high-protein future food after a 2016 IUCr paper resolved their in-vivo-grown structure at atomic resolution.  
- A new NBER working paper quantifies USPTO examiner “revolving doors,” reinforcing channel skepticism about IP barriers to open-source biotech.  
- Literary recommendations included Thomas M. Disch’s 1968 novel “Camp Concentration” and Poul Anderson’s “Brain Wave” as the closest fictional explorations of mass-produced genius and society-wide intelligence enhancement.