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What a terrible, misleading headline. As expected, the reference to the human brain is there entirely for virality reasons. Whenever charge flows, there will b
by Udo 6y ago
What a terrible, misleading headline. As expected, the reference to the human brain is there entirely for virality reasons.
Whenever charge flows, there will be magnetic fields. It's common for this to occur, because all known life uses ion channels in some way, and multicellular organisms do use electrical potential for internal signaling (such as nervous systems). Thus, the study of magnetic fields can be used to gain information about the state of an organism and scientists are now applying this to plants as well.
- chaps 6y agoHeh, yeah.. the article is strange. The magnetic fields infographic includes "Palm of Person Emitting Qi - 400 Nanotesla" without any context. Makes me think that its lack of context was intentional to build towards a "spiritual" vibe of the article. The infographic was made by the author, so it's not like they sourced some random graphic from somewhere. Also, apparently the author's the "Head of Publishing at Vice Media". Could explain why it wasn't cut during editing.
- fsloth 6y agoReminds me of the experiment of putting salmon to MRI and showing it photographs https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/fmri-gets-slap-in-the-face-with-a-dead-fish https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/fmri-gets-slap-in-the-... The salmon test was not made to prove that salomon exhibit post-death brain activity but that the correlations from the said experiment are of roughly as meaningful as many brainscan studies. The new-age aspects of this article reminds me of this test ... except for lack of insight. Would really suck to be the professional interviewed in this article.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoThe headline reads like that there is a possibility that the life on Venus might show signs of intelligence.
- amelius 6y agoEven a water molecule has a magnetic field.
- airhead969 6y agoYep, it's polar. And water can be magnetized. Also, big zaps from falling water, which implies an EMF. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379717317230 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971... "Sparks from Falling Water: Kelvin's Thunderstorm" Veritasium https://youtu.be/rv4MjaF_wow https://youtu.be/rv4MjaF_wow
- r00fus 6y agoThis much more informative (and interesting to me) than the title. Excellent distillation.