- X-ray micro-CT is being used as a non-destructive method to read water-damaged antique books; iron-tannate inks give high contrast, while modern carbon-black inks do not, making historical texts easier to recover than recent ones.  
- He Jiankui’s CRISPR-baby project resurfaced with Nature’s call to release embryo chromatograms; the original informed-consent forms, presentation slides, and a proposed medical-tourism gene-editing partnership with New Hope Fertility Center were circulated.  
- Parsr, an open-source document-parser from AXA, was tested for invoice extraction and judged “hilariously bad” on the group’s data; it is aimed at non-technical business users rather than developers.  
- Glia.org’s open-source medical hardware—including 3-D-printed tourniquets field-tested in Gaza—was praised; Tarek Loubani’s talk on manufacturing lifesaving devices under fire was highlighted as a model for crisis-zone innovation.  
- A Quanta article on dendritic computation sparked debate over whether single dendrites performing XOR represent a new discovery, with participants clarifying concepts of linear separability in neural logic.  
- Key links circulated: a comprehensive fuzzing survey (arXiv:1812.00140), Ralph Mirebs’ photos of an apparently intact but abandoned 1990s semiconductor fab, and the CRISPR-generation book website.