# Key Points from IRC Log

• A discussion about "brain training" programs like Lumosity questioned whether there's evidence they improve anything beyond performance on the specific training exercises themselves.

• The "Rat Park" experiment was shared, which suggested that addiction to opiate drugs in laboratory rats may be attributable to their living conditions rather than inherent addictive properties of the drugs.

• Several resources for human enhancement were shared, including the Seven Horizons project (sevenhorizons.org) for "assessing human enhancement technologies" and the Cognitive Atlas (cognitiveatlas.org) for mapping cognitive processes.

• A genetic algorithm demonstration using Box2D physics (boxcar2d.com) was discussed, showing evolutionary optimization of vehicle designs for distance traveled.

• Issues with open source hardware were mentioned, including concerns about YAML formatting being inaccessible to potential contributors and deletion of discussion pages from an open source hardware definition.

• Archives of H+ Magazine were made available (diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hplusmagazine/issues/), with some criticism of the publication's approach and promotional materials.

• The Synthetic Biology conference SB5.0 was mentioned, scheduled for June 15-17 (sb5.biobricks.org).