# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (August 20, 2015)

• A BBC News article was shared about carbon nanofibres made from CO2 in the air, representing a potential carbon capture technology development.

• A discussion occurred about the questionable application of blockchain technology to "Internet of Things" devices, with criticism that many proposed blockchain applications lack technical merit.

• An article was shared about whistled languages and their unique neurological processing, noting they lack the typical left-brain dominance of spoken languages (with reference to a paper in Current Biology).

• A claim was mentioned that "20% of the population is immune to exercise," referencing a LessWrong post about procedural knowledge gaps.

• Several academic papers were shared related to computational biology and data structures, including papers on rolling hash algorithms, cache-oblivious B-trees, and bioinformatics techniques.

• A paper titled "Modelling pragmatic aspects of language evolution: The case of the articulation bottleneck" was shared, examining constraints in language development.