- DIY rodent-proof door design: participants brainstormed low-cost, high-seal alternatives to $4 k, 4-month-lead-time commercial garage doors, including sliding barn-door tracks, perimeter inflatable gaskets, and a clamping system with motorized bolts every 1–2 ft to compress an o-ring seal against the building frame.  
- Reference material shared: hobbyfarms.com article on sealing sliding barn doors and a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8y2iiynC8c) showing stiff-panel, multi-point latching as a simpler alternative.  
- Altos Labs longevity scoop: internal goal described as “transforming the body into a regenerating lizard state for 1 day every 6 months,” highlighting a radical regenerative-medicine approach backed by Bezos et al.  
- PARPA proposal: Benjamin Reinhardt’s essay (https://benjaminreinhardt.com/parpa) outlines a hybrid for/non-profit agency that uses empowered program managers to bridge the gap between academic research and venture-scale engineering for “too-weird-to-fund” technologies.  
- Twitter round-up: Bezos’s $1 M-salary anti-aging initiative (tweet by @SaycheeseDGTL), Musk’s quip about suing death, and a near-miss by asteroid 2021 RS2 only 15 300 km above Japan with interactive orbital sim (orbitsimulator.com).