- Ben Krasnow’s latest Applied Science video presents a DIY bomb-calorimeter experiment in which he measures the chemical energy of vacuum-freeze-dried human feces after a week on Soylent; participants note the unexpected formation of non-flammable glass-like beads in the residue and speculate whether they could be PDMS or another food additive.  
- Discussion of mechanosensitive hair follicles as a low-invasiveness bidirectional brain-computer interface: yanking or vibrating individual hairs could encode digital signals while preserving the natural neural wiring to the somatosensory cortex.  
- Athens Research is introduced as an open-source, local-first, graph-based note-taking tool meant to replicate Roam Research; it features bidirectional links, block-level references, and a graph database for “networked thought.”  
- A ResearchGate paper on “Philosophical Difficulties of Mind Uploading as a Medical Technology” is shared, inviting critique of identity, continuity, and therapeutic claims in whole-brain emulation proposals.  
- Vention.io is briefly spotlighted as a rapid machine-building platform that lets users design custom automation online and receive hardware the next day.  
- Long debate on the historical efficacy and ethics of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD): participants weigh whether MAD truly prevented nuclear war, cite Stanislav Petrov’s 1983 intervention, and review the list of documented nuclear close calls.  
- Side conversation on permanent facial-hair removal: electrology is deemed too time-intensive, hormone therapy is mentioned (with caveats about side-effects), and no low-cost, low-time solution is identified.