- RadVac is hosting an “Open-Source Vaccine Summit 2021” on Eventbrite (registration link shared) to discuss open-source approaches to vaccine development.  
- A new Python script, “scimag-seeder-counter-v2.py,” was posted on Pastebin to count seeders for scientific-magazine torrents by manually unpacking UDP packets—highlighting a preference for first-principles implementation over existing libraries.  
- Discussion framed distributed-system protocols (BitTorrent, cryptocurrency) as inherently conservative and future-proof, contrasting them with the politicized “big-blocker vs. small-blocker” splits seen in blockchain governance.  
- Autonomous robotic lawnmowers (example: graze-mowing.com) were noted as surprisingly recent, prompting curiosity about why the technology took so long to appear.  
- The 2021 iGEM synthetic-biology competition’s global Slack workspace invite link was circulated, despite its intended restriction to registered participants.  
- Lifespan.io’s PEARL campaign (Participatory Evaluation of Aging with Rapamycin for Longevity) was shared as a crowdsourced longevity trial exploring rapamycin’s anti-aging effects.