- A new “Longevity List” job-and-investor directory (longevitylist.com/explore) was introduced as a curated map of companies, labs, and funding sources in the life-extension industry.  
- Foresight Institute is running weekly open “Longevity Tech Tree” build sessions on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/ftSbffu) to crowd-source a technology roadmap for health-span extension; recordings are posted afterward.  
- Oregon Health & Science University’s Mitalipov lab received a $4 million Open Philanthropy grant to revive somatic-cell nuclear transfer as a route to creating artificial human eggs, positioning the older SCNT method against newer iPSC-based startups such as Conception, Ivy Natal, and Gameto.  
- A Nature Communications paper (DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03040-5) reports successful induction of haploidy in mouse somatic cells by mature oocytes and the generation of viable embryonic stem cells and live offspring from “somatic-sperm embryos,” hinting at future mammalian IVG applications.  
- Discussion of social factors in longevity included evidence that strong friendships measurably increase lifespan and practical tips for finding like-minded life-extension communities (online forums, conferences, reading the literature to learn “ingroup shibboleths”).  
- A viral necrobotics demo (CBS News clip) showed dead wolf-spiders repurposed as pneumatic grippers able to lift >100× their body weight, prompting tongue-in-cheek speculation about scaled-up human-corpse “necromechanical” applications.  
- Brief troubleshooting of high-omega-3 diets: sprats (small herring-like fish) were compared to flax and pumpkin seeds for DHA/EPA content; DIY oil-extraction from boiled sprats was considered but deemed wasteful of protein.