TQP 025: What Guides Your Compass Part II

The Question PodcastAfter a time, he allowed the students to exist the bus, still blindfolded, he asked the group to make their best guess for the direction of the university campus, and point their fingers in that direction. Surprisingly, a significant number of the students pointed in the correct direction.

He replicated the experiment the very next day with the same students. Only this time, he secretly inserted small magnets into their blindfolds. And again, surprisingly, there was a significant reduction in the number of students who pointed in the right direction.

This type of magnetic interference often happens to migrating birds flying near high-tension power lines or microwave towers. They lose their way.

In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “What Guides Your Compass”, as well as the music of Shannon Magee.

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TQP 024: What Guides Your Compass Part I

The Question PodcastThe compass is a simple ancient device made of natural magnetic material, mounted in free suspension, to interact with the awesome power of the earth’s electromagnetic field.

Whether it’s a fourth century Chinese lodestone compass or a modern-day magnetometer, the principles of the compass are universal, enduring, and deeply philosophical.

The compass represents, to us, the essential power of electromagnetism, the ability to navigate the unknown, and our confidence in the existence of True North.

In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “What Guides Your Compass”, as well as the music of Shannon Magee.

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