- Boise, Idaho is being scouted as a new hub for open-source bio-nanofabrication research, leveraging Micron’s semiconductor campus, Idaho National Lab facilities, and an existing NSF-funded DNA data-storage project at Boise State that already owns “all the snazzy nanofab equipment.”  
- Participants weighed Boise’s advantages (30-minute rural commutes, dense technical talent) against its downsides: summer wildfire smoke at high elevation poses non-trivial health risks, pushing some to consider even higher-altitude housing despite longer drives.  
- Nectome’s glutaraldehyde brain-preservation protocol sparked debate on whether chemical fixation merely produces a “brain-shaped fossil” or truly retains memories, and whether continuity with the rest of the universe is necessary for eventual mind re-instantiation.  
- Ed Boyden’s newly issued patent (US 10,173,061) on “temporal interference” non-invasive brain stimulation was announced; speculation centered on whether the method can already target single-digit numbers of neurons non-invasively.  
- Stanford Blockchain Conference 2019 transcripts were transcribed and uploaded to diyhpluswiki, covering MimbleWimble/Grin, Bulletproofs, STARKs, Aurora, accumulators, Urkel trees, Plasma Cash, and other zero-knowledge scalability techniques; open problems include under-funding of Grin developer “yeastplume” and the need for privacy-preserving key-update schemes like Quisquis.  
- A Discover Magazine post on adult human neurogenesis prompted interest in the single dentate-gyrus manipulation study shown in Figure 3, viewed as a possible lever for cognitive enhancement.  
- Microwave-induced “sonic attacks” on embassy personnel were re-examined via Frey-effect literature, with discussion pivoting to the prospect of non-invasive auditory prostheses that could restore hearing—even in deaf subjects—using modulated microwaves.  
- Practical transhumanist parenting ideas surfaced: genetically suppressing infant fingernail growth to eliminate painful trimming, balanced against the developmental value of low-level adversity.  
- A paper in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (“Increased Functional Connectivity After Listening to Favored Music in Adults With Alzheimer Dementia”) was shared as evidence that personalized music offers a low-cost, non-invasive way to strengthen brain network connectivity in Alzheimer’s patients.