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“Beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given.
Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness”
- Sir Roger Scruton
Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness”
- Sir Roger Scruton
Blue light-dependent human magnetoreception in geomagnetic food orientation
The Earth’s geomagnetic field (GMF) is known to influence magnetoreceptive creatures, from bacteria to mammals as a sensory cue or a physiological modulator, despite it is largely thought that humans cannot sense the GMF. Here, we show that humans sense the GMF to orient their direction toward food .
Our findings show that, as a group, starved men can sense the GMF during food consumption and use it to identify the direction in which food can be obtained,
The results show that blue light entering the eyes, the putative magnetoreception organ in humans, is essential for GMF-receptive food orientation. Given that birds demonstrated a magnetoresponsive orientation under light at wavelengths up to 571 nm , it is interesting that male subjects did not orient for wavelengths > 500 nm, warranting an investigation into the difference between birds and men.
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The Earth’s geomagnetic field (GMF) is known to influence magnetoreceptive creatures, from bacteria to mammals as a sensory cue or a physiological modulator, despite it is largely thought that humans cannot sense the GMF. Here, we show that humans sense the GMF to orient their direction toward food .
Our findings show that, as a group, starved men can sense the GMF during food consumption and use it to identify the direction in which food can be obtained,
The results show that blue light entering the eyes, the putative magnetoreception organ in humans, is essential for GMF-receptive food orientation. Given that birds demonstrated a magnetoresponsive orientation under light at wavelengths up to 571 nm , it is interesting that male subjects did not orient for wavelengths > 500 nm, warranting an investigation into the difference between birds and men.
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The male-specific magnetic orientation might have originated from prehistoric male ancestors who were dominantly responsible for gathering or hunting for food, and the varying level of individual orientation could be a diverging trait from the evolutionary process to date. Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that other geomagnetic responses may exist in women.
It is broadly accepted that humans are responsive to alternating magnetic fields, including low frequency pulsed magnetic fields used in medicine and clinical therapies .Such low frequency magnetic fields effectively promote wound healing, bone unification, pain reduction, blood circulation, and cancer treatment. In addition, a targeted pulse of transcranial magnetic stimulation facilitated working memory recall in humans .
the results show that starved men, but not women, can sense the GMF and orient toward the magnetic direction with which food has been associated.
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The male-specific magnetic orientation might have originated from prehistoric male ancestors who were dominantly responsible for gathering or hunting for food, and the varying level of individual orientation could be a diverging trait from the evolutionary process to date. Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that other geomagnetic responses may exist in women.
It is broadly accepted that humans are responsive to alternating magnetic fields, including low frequency pulsed magnetic fields used in medicine and clinical therapies .Such low frequency magnetic fields effectively promote wound healing, bone unification, pain reduction, blood circulation, and cancer treatment. In addition, a targeted pulse of transcranial magnetic stimulation facilitated working memory recall in humans .
the results show that starved men, but not women, can sense the GMF and orient toward the magnetic direction with which food has been associated.
Source Study