- A Nature Scientific Reports paper is discussed that presents evidence a Tunguska-scale airburst destroyed the Bronze-Age city Tall el-Hammam (~1650 BCE) near the Dead Sea, with participants noting the site may correspond to later-named Beth-Haram or Sodom.  
- A blog post from “Anti-Aging Firewalls” (Part 9 of an inflammation series) is shared, focusing on the “inflammatory reflex”—a cholinergic neural circuit that fine-tunes immune responses and whose discovery has qualitatively expanded understanding of nervous-system modulation of immunity.  
- Participants cite a 2015 PubMed study showing truncal vagotomy lowers subsequent Parkinson’s disease risk, suggesting the vagus nerve can transport toxins or misfolded proteins from the gut to the brain and that interrupting this pathway is neuroprotective.  
- A news article on EEPower is highlighted: researchers have deposited CVD diamond films onto GaN HEMTs, cutting operating temperature by ~40 % and enabling smaller, higher-power electronics; discussion centers on grain-boundary and interface thermal resistances.  
- Electrochemical RAM (ECRAM) is introduced as a multi-level-cell, non-volatile memory technology specifically designed for analog deep-learning acceleration, with a Wikipedia link provided for further technical details.