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A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

Can't ban Sikh knives from school, sorry

Sure! Electrocaloric materials change temperature under an electric field—ideal for solid-state cooling with no liquids or water. The family includes magnetocaloric, elastocaloric, and barocaloric effects for efficient heat pumping. Thermoelectric materials (Seebeck effect) convert waste heat straight to electricity. Pyroelectrics do it from temperature swings. Electricity ↔ magnetism via induction and electromagnets is standard. Metamaterials can stack these to harvest data center heat + acoustic noise (piezo/vibro harvesting) and recycle it into power. In principle, this slashes or eliminates water cooling needs by turning waste into usable energy. Real-world efficiencies are still improving, but the physics works.

"Gasket-free" in this case means very tight tolerances & exceptional surface finishes. The planar surfaces of the case are lapped to a flatness of 150 nanometers (6µin) & a laser cut spring applies even force to the glass. The stem is lapped until a 150nm (6µin) clearance is obtained (not sure if this is radial or diametral), then the grooves are filled with a high-density grease. Waterproof down to 300m thanks to precision machining.