Scientist claims he's discovered a magnetic 'sixth sense' in humans

[ChrisSmolinski]

A researcher in US thinks he might have finally found evidence of humanity's sixth sense - the ability to detect, in some subconscious way, Earth's magnetic field.

The ability to sense Earth's magnetic field has been confirmed in birds, insects, and some mammals, which they use to migrate and orient themselves with the world around them, and now geophysicist Joe Kirschvink from the California Institute of Technology says he's identified it in humans for the first time.

Full article: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-claims-he-s-discovered-a-magnetic-sixth-sense-in-humans

[Pigmeat]

Maybe this will be enough to stop women from constantly asking, "Are you sure you know where you're going?" Just because their sense of the magnetosphere is blunted by hairspray fumes and aluminum in deodorants, doesn't mean men have the same impairment.

Personally, one of my great Grandaddies provisioned Dan'l Boone for his trip through the Cumberland Gap and provided him with a guide. (That's actually true, unlike most of this post.) It is physically impossible for the men in my family to get lost, although like ol' Dan'l we might get perplexed about the best way to get there. Especially if there are yappy women distracting us.

My Grandpa used to pretend to be lost just to tick Grandma off, with tricks like, "Well Hell, there used to be a road through here. Hand me the wire cutters boy, let's cut through this pasture and see where we end up." (This, unfortunately, is true, too.) The farmer was pissed as we came rolling past his house and hit the hard road, as was Grandma who had been quacking all the way, but Grandpa was right, there had been a logging road through there in the 40's. That man never got lost.

It's nice to see the boys at CowTech finally figure out Grandpa's Gift.

[Josh]

I moved 700 miles east and now can't tell north from east, back home I knew what direction was what on a cloudy day. Maybe the magnetic declination is different here.

[ka1iic]

A number of years ago I noticed I always slept with my head towards the North...  When ever I set up the beds in the big house always the head board was in the North...

No good reason for it, it just happened that way... I seemed to sleep better in that position AND it helped with the voices in my head... they came in much clearer. ;-)

But all joking aside... I did always sleep with my head to the north no matter where I was... just another one of my weird idiot-Nsync-rotcies I guess.