- Anders Sandberg will give a lecture on 2 February titled “The Value of the Human in the Age of Automation” as part of the Polymath Festival; registration link shared: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-value-of-the-human-in-the-age-of-automation-tickets-136810175919.

- NIH videocast portal (https://videocast.nih.gov/) was highlighted as a resource for streaming biomedical and life-science talks.

- A 2013 Icarus paper claiming non-random, “precision-logic” structure in the terrestrial genetic code was circulated via Sci-Hub; the authors reject the null hypothesis of stochastic origin with p < 10⁻¹³, framing the patterns as a possible “Wow! signal” embedded in biology.