- A Nature paper shows that removing stressful conditions accelerates dexterous-skill acquisition in surgical training, suggesting that low-stakes simulation environments may outperform traditional high-pressure residencies.  
- Discussion of He Jiankui’s CRISPR-baby work centered on whether single-cell whole-genome sequencing (via Quake-linked Direct Genomics) was necessary to verify on-target and off-target edits, with experts debating the technical merits versus simpler PCR/blastocyst-stage sampling.  
- Tweets highlighted a wish-list of germline edits—PCSK9 loss-of-function, protective APP variant, myostatin knockout—framed as a cheaper, more reliable alternative to treating thousands of rare diseases individually.  
- A 1991 paper demonstrating that transgenic Sry can masculinize chromosomally female mice was circulated as foundational evidence that sex-determining pathways can be engineered.  
- The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a treaty that will regulate—but not ban—gene-drive organisms, setting the stage for controlled field trials.  
- Links to Stanford’s 2019 Blockchain Conference playlist, Bitcoin Script tutorials, CVE-2018-20587 exploitation write-ups, and the Arwen Layer-2 atomic-swap whitepaper were shared as resources for open financial-protocol research.  
- A Go-runtime debugging saga and an “evil scheduler” bug post were circulated as cautionary tales for low-level systems work in cryptocurrency infrastructure.