Wandering Adventure Party

Summary of what you need to know to understand the experiment and the results is in the writeup:

Our knowledge of how heat and electricity interact within materials is rooted in the Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects, all identified during the 1800s.

The Thomson effect causes volumetric heating or cooling when an electric current and a temperature gradient flow in the same direction through a conductor.

Scientists have long theorized that a transverse version of this effect should exist when an electric current, temperature gradient, and magnetic field are applied in orthogonal directions in a conductor.

Remember that heat is just molecular motion/kinetic energy; it’s the relationship between the movement of molecules and electromagnetic radiation that’s being explored here, and there’s only so many ways motion and electron energy states can interact with each other.

Once believed by whom?

That’s how politics tends to operate too.

And technically the scientists weren’t on board when they discovered it, since the ship was in dry dock and they were in a lab.

Er, I think they mean “Scientists aboard Great Lakes research vessel discover new life” don’t they?

The goo wasn’t really on board; it was on rudder.

Subject: That lawnmower you borrowed

Dear sir,

I am SLAMMING you for your delay in returning my lawnmower. Please return today, or you won’t BELIEVE what happens next! 9 out of 10 billionaires don’t WANT you to know!

Sincerely, Your neighbor.

Yeah; despite this study essentially saying “we can now reliably manufacture the inheritable attributes that trigger ASD in mice, and have eliminated the ones not directly implicated.”

Somehow this will be interpreted as “proof that scientists are causing Autism by adding chemicals to our <insert thing here>.”

Wow… right at the end:

He adds: “Interestingly, the genetic variants we studied are also implicated in other neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. So, this library may be useful for studying other conditions as well.”

These have been harder to pin down than autism spectrum. So this could have some pretty profound consequences.