{"id":45868,"date":"2019-03-28T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45868"},"modified":"2019-03-23T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T22:12:16","slug":"can-humans-sense-the-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/can-humans-sense-the-magnetic-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Humans Sense the Magnetic Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science journal <em>eNeuro<\/em> has published the results of experiments examining whether humans are able to respond to the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. During the test, participants were connected to an EEG and placed in isolation. During the next hour, the direction of the magnetic fields around the participants&#8217; were rotated repeatedly, thanks to a device called a Merritt coil. After the tests, none of the participants said they could tell when the magnetic fields changed. However, for four of the participants, the EEG readouts showed a specific brain response, suggesting that humans can respond to Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>This trait is likely a leftover from our primitive days, but still &#8211; Is Magneto so far-fetched? Could developing this extra perception give humans the ability to navigate using the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, like birds? Or would we just starting pooping on a north-south line, like dogs?\u00a0What other extrasensory perceptions do animals possess that humans would find helpful? What happens next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/fascinating-experiment-suggests-some-humans-can-sense-e-1833377029\">Read the full article at <em>Gizmodo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\">Photo courtesy Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science journal eNeuro has published the results of experiments examining whether humans are able to respond to the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. During the test, participants were connected to an EEG and placed in isolation. During the next hour, the direction of the magnetic fields around the participants&#8217; were rotated repeatedly, thanks to a device called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-45868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46101,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions\/46101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}