• A rationally engineered myoglobin variant achieves >1000-fold higher catalytic dehalogenation efficiency than native dehaloperoxidase, pointing to synthetic-biology routes for rapid pollutant breakdown (ACS Catalysis 2018).  
• UART-over-photodiodes project (GitHub: maqp/tfc) demonstrates low-cost optical data links that could be embedded in wearable or implantable devices for secure, air-gapped communication.  
• Replication Markets blog post (Sep 2019) proposes using prediction-market pricing to calibrate p-values and improve reproducibility science, suggesting a new funding/feedback mechanism for open research.  
• Jeffrey Epstein’s funding of MIT Media Lab, Harvard Evolutionary Dynamics, OpenCog/Hanson Robotics, Humanity+, and others is dissected; participants debate whether $800 k over 20 years is material and how secrecy distorts norms around donor vetting.  
• Discussion of Joi Ito’s resignation frames the scandal as a systemic failure rather than individual malfeasance, highlighting risk premiums and scapegoat dynamics in high-profile academic leadership.  
• Tweet-thread on planetary-scale geoengineering: cooling Earth 2–3 °C for “a few billion dollars” could crash real-estate markets predicated on exclusive climates, prompting Lex-Luthor-style strategic considerations.  
• Paper on future habitability of Asian Russia under warming scenarios (IOP Environmental Research Letters 2019) is circulated, reinforcing the counter-narrative that global warming may increase total habitable land area (e.g., green Sahara, expanded Canada/Siberia).  
• Historical note: a Bitcoin community member claims to have propagated the “mosquito line” meme (linking altitude/apartment height to malaria risk) after hearing it from Al Gore circa 2007, illustrating early climate-risk folklore.