Wise men have long pondered how magnets work. We all know the answer is “magic,” but Ceri and Hank have to keep up the illusion that science is real, so please humor them.
Wise men have long pondered how magnets work. We all know the answer is “magic,” but Ceri and Hank have to keep up the illusion that science is real, so please humor them.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Magnet Therapy
https://www.livescience.com/40174-magnetic-therapy.html
God Machine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/brain-religion2.htm
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2017.1403952
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/test-of-god-helmet-at-music-fest-yields-strange-results/
Electro-Metabograph
Radium Ore Revigator
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/1/100118-radiation-toxic-water-revigator/
[Fact Off]
Airport runways/WMM
https://www.wired.com/story/airports-rename-runways-magnetic-shift/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-magnetic-field
https://cires.colorado.edu/news/airport-runway-names-shift-earth%E2%80%99s-magnetic-field
https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/asw_may08_p18-22.pdf
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/world-magnetic-model-2020-released
Ferrofluids
http://aerospace.mtu.edu/research/ionic-liquid-ferrofluid-microthrusters/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/ferrofluid
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4985141
[Ask the Science Couch]
Demagnetizing
https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-falling-magnets-in-stranger-things-season-3/
https://nationalmaglab.org/education/magnet-academy/plan-a-lesson/demagnetizing
http://www.magmamagnets.com/electromagnets-solenoids/
[Butt One More Thing]
Magnetic anal sphincter