{"id":36701,"date":"2019-03-28T05:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36701"},"modified":"2019-03-28T05:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:05:52","slug":"human-magnetoreception-can-humans-sense-magnetic-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/human-magnetoreception-can-humans-sense-magnetic-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Human Magnetoreception&#8221;: Can Humans Sense Magnetic Storms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Can our brains sense Geomagnetic Storms?\u00a0 Do we have an &#8220;internal radar&#8221; that tells us when the sun is active?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brain Waves Respond to Magnetic Fields\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/326939844?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Brain waves respond to Magnetic Fields (<strong>Credit: Earth to Sky Calculus<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>I ran across this article this morning posted at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com\">http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>CAN HUMANS SENSE MAGNETIC STORMS? Close your eyes and relax. Daydream about something pleasant. In this state your brain is filled with &#8220;alpha waves,&#8221; a type of electrical brainwave associated with wakeful relaxation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now try it during a geomagnetic storm. It may not be so easy. A new study just published in the journal eNeuro by researchers at Caltech offers convincing evidence that changes in Earth&#8217;s magnetic field can suppress alpha waves in the human brain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com\">http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com <\/a>to read the full article]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Guest Post by Troy Riedel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can our brains sense Geomagnetic Storms?\u00a0 Do we have an &#8220;internal radar&#8221; that tells us when the sun is active? Brain waves respond to Magnetic Fields (Credit: Earth to Sky Calculus) I ran across this article this morning posted at\u00a0http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com CAN HUMANS SENSE MAGNETIC STORMS? Close your eyes and relax. Daydream about something pleasant. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4107,4581],"class_list":["post-36701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-space-weather","tag-troy-riedel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9xX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6805,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/geomagnetic-storms-in-weekend-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":36701,"position":0},"title":"Geomagnetic storms in weekend forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"June 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Heads up! 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Forecasters call this a \"solar radiation storm.\" Today's storm (near category S2)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":29469,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/geomagnetic-storm-predicted-g2-class\/","url_meta":{"origin":36701,"position":3},"title":"Geomagnetic Storm Predicted (G2-Class)","author":"Troy Riedel","date":"December 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Per spaceweather.com & NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC): \"A high-speed stream of solar wind is approaching Earth, and NOAA forecasters say there is a 75% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when it arrives during the late hours of Dec. 4th. 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