- A podcast episode titled “The low-cost future of preserving brains with Jordan Sparks” was shared as both a Buzzsprout page and direct MP3, with commentary that Sparks has deliberately distanced himself from cryo-based suspended-animation claims and is instead pursuing pragmatic, low-cost brain preservation—contrasting this with the still-vaporware status of Nectome.  
- Discussion of space-food technologies highlighted Solar Foods’ “Solein” protein and knallgas (hydrogen-oxidizing) bacteria as potential closed-loop systems that could outperform traditional agriculture for off-Earth life-support, prompting speculation about a consumer-grade countertop device that converts electricity into edible biomass.  
- Kombucha SCOBYs were praised as a robust microbial culturing platform: the cellulose mat acts as a physical barrier against mold, reducing contamination risk after the initial sterile sweet-tea phase and allowing simple mold-skimming recovery.  
- A Science paper on “Project West Ford but for Mars” (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn4650) was linked, suggesting the deployment of orbital dipole antennas or similar structures around Mars for communication or terraforming purposes.  
- A Hugging Face leaderboard for “UGI” (presumably Universal General Intelligence benchmarks) was posted at https://huggingface.co/spaces/DontPlanToEnd/UGI-Leaderboard, indicating ongoing community efforts to rank open-source AGI systems.  
- A provocative mass-optimization argument claimed that sending children rather than adults to space would maximize “life per kilogram,” countered by the observation that lower problem-solving density in children could reduce survival probability and shift the optimum back toward adult crews.