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