# Summary of IRC Log from June 10, 2013

• George Church's talk at TEDxCERN was referenced, along with links to genomeinabottle.org and personalgenomes.org (PGP), with kanzure noting that Amazon and NCBI both host copies of PGP genomes and 1000genomes data.

• A discussion about paperbot (a tool for accessing scientific papers) included suggestions to integrate with sci-hub as a fallback or primary source for accessing paywalled academic content, with participants noting the Russian service's effectiveness at translating URLs to PDFs.

• An interesting paper on "Aiming routines and their electrocortical concomitants among competitive rifle shooters" was shared, examining the neural correlates of precision shooting.

• A user requested help accessing an article about laser record players, leading to a brief discussion about techniques for reading old audio recordings, including cylinder recordings.

• A conversation about Edward Snowden revealed his unusual career trajectory from high school dropout to $200,000/year NSA contractor with "diplomatic cover" in Geneva, prompting speculation about what such cover entails.

• User nmz787_ mentioned working on an open hardware project with schematics and PCB designs, noting collaboration with a local engineer and efforts to use the open-source KiCAD software for the project.