# Key Points from IRC Log (February 10, 2011)

• A Wall Street Journal article was shared about education potentially preventing the emergence of modern geniuses, with discussion about how current educational systems may inhibit innovation and disruptive thinking.

• Kanzure shared a lengthy cryonics article from chronopause.com, demonstrating ongoing interest in life extension technologies within the transhumanist community.

• Discussion of graphene's pseudomagnetic properties occurred, with ThomasEgi explaining that these quantum mechanical effects operate at nanometer scale and would likely be magnetically neutral at macroscopic scales.

• DARPA's 100-Year Starship Study Strategic Planning Workshop was mentioned, showing interest in long-term space exploration projects within the transhumanist community.

• Several open hardware and DIY biology projects were discussed, including OpenPCR (a $512 thermal cycler for DIY biologists) and a proposed $300 spectrophotometer project.

• Kanzure shared a digital brain atlasing project for mouse brains, demonstrating interest in detailed brain mapping technologies.

• The group discussed analytics for hplusmagazine.com, noting relatively low traffic despite having over 1,100 articles, suggesting transhumanist content remains somewhat fringe despite growing mainstream interest in related technologies.

• Several resource links were shared, including a Linux for chemistry resource (redbrick.dcu.ie/~noel/linux4chemistry/) and a list of DIY transhumanist projects (diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers/diytranshuman_projects.v3.txt).