- Discussion of safety limits for 100 V electrowetting power supplies: while the voltage can be lethal, practical droplet-driving circuits only need micro-amp currents, so properly sized drivers pose no shock risk to humans but can still destroy CMOS through capacitive coupling and creepage.  
- Ben Krasnow’s Applied Science video cited as a cautionary example: high-voltage driver chips for an AGC replica electroluminescent display repeatedly failed from subtle capacitive-coupling paths.  
- MAX phases (Mn+1AXn carbides/nitrides) introduced as layered “neither-metal-nor-ceramic” materials that are machinable, oxidation- and thermal-shock-resistant, and under study at Drexel’s Layered Solids Group.  
- MXenes—2-D derivatives produced by etching A layers from MAX phases—highlighted for applications in Li-ion batteries, super-caps, neural electrodes, SERS substrates, photothermal cancer therapy, and transparent conductors.  
- Anecdotal report that standardized lion’s-mane mushroom extract (Swanson “Full Spectrum” capsules) triggered pronounced neurogenesis-linked personality changes, shifting aesthetic preferences from minimalist/tech to ornate/floral within months.  
- Open question raised about whether T-cell infiltration into nervous tissue in some diseases is due to epithelial junction gaps (e.g., blood–brain barrier) and whether simply killing T-cells is only a symptomatic fix.  
- Sabine Hossenfelder’s blog post on black-hole starships and “kugelblitz” black-hole formation shared, alongside the 2009 arXiv paper “Are Black Hole Starships Possible?” (0908.1803).