- A participant asked whether any alternative evolutionary theories to the “standard” eye-evolution narrative exist, specifically proposing a eukaryote-style symbiosis in which a phototroph parasitized and then integrated into a multicellular host.  
- Discussion referenced Richard Dawkins’ popular‐science explanations and Daniel Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell” as contrasting approaches for communicating science to strongly religious audiences.  
- Avian intelligence was highlighted: crows possess a neural architecture very different from primates yet exhibit tool use, causal reasoning (water-displacement experiments), and self-awareness, prompting debate on convergent cognition.  
- Links to crow-tool-use videos were shared: https://youtu.be/BGPGknpq3e0?t=106 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04.  
- The channel examined MEGA (“Malleable Encryption Goes Awry”) and the peersm project, which implements a browser-based, encrypted P2P file-sharing layer compatible with BitTorrent but claims to be untrackable; the underlying node-Tor implementation (https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor) and its NLnet funding were noted.  
- DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory program was introduced, aiming to build wireless, fully implantable hippocampal neuroprosthetics to restore memory encoding and retrieval; archived program page: http://web.archive.org/web/20140712094717/www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/07/09.aspx.  
- A 2019 talk by Theodore W. Berger on hippocampal prosthesis research was linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bix3d0tCs.