- Brainstorm-style cinematic BCI: archels quotes a 1983 Douglas Trumbull plan to switch the film itself to 70 mm/60 fps whenever a character donned the fictional brain-recording headset, letting the audience “feel” the interface.  
- DIY electroporation protocol: kanzure links a 2001 paper detailing how to transiently open pores in mammalian embryonic brain tissue to deliver plasmids for gene-expression studies, a technique accessible to garage bio-labs.  
- Sci-Hub mirror mechanics: discussion of the new .img distribution method—squashfs images mounted under Linux, each PDF stored under the MD5 hash of its DOI—plus torrents at libgen.io/scimag; observed download speeds ~2–3 MB/s.  
- Cryptographic side-channel: kanzure posts the pre-print “Biased nonce sense: Lattice attacks against weak ECDSA signatures in cryptocurrencies” (eprint.iacr.org/2019/023), highlighting real-world key-recovery risks in blockchain wallets.  
- GMO palm-oil replacement debate: fenn summarizes a Guardian article on naturally oil-producing yeast aiming for $1,200/ton vs $500/ton palm oil, noting consumer backlash against earlier GM algae oil attempts by Ecover.  
- Meta-analysis of 21 years of GM-maize field data: fenn links a Nature Scientific Reports paper finding no significant agronomic, environmental, or toxicological downsides across hundreds of trials.  
- Aggressive reforestation talk: kanzure points to a BioHack the Planet 2018 transcript on engineering trees for 4× faster growth via simple gene overexpression, with potential to sequester atmospheric CO₂ at scale.