# Summary of IRC Log from March 16, 2012

• A user shared news about lab chemicals being removed from a Texas campus, linking to articles from Statesman and Nature about a former UT student being investigated in a lab theft case.

• Figshare (mx.figshare.com) was mentioned as a site for uploading scientific figures and graphs, with comments that it seemed specialized for a hosting platform.

• Several discussions about nootropics occurred, including dosing recommendations for piracetam (4.8g/day mentioned as ideal), choline supplementation, and comparisons between different racetams, with noopept noted as being "up to 1000 times more potent than piracetam."

• A research paper about implanted biofuel cells operating in living snails was shared (Halámková et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012), suggesting potential applications for bioelectronic devices powered by glucose.

• Users discussed hardware description language (HDL) in the context of electronics work, showing interest in computational systems design.

• The diyhpl.us wiki was mentioned as a collaborative platform for documenting projects, accessible via git with the command "git clone git://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki.git".