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EXEMPLARS. “Weak extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (wELFMF). the minimal fields detectable by honeybees were 4.3 µT at 10 Hz and 430 µT at 60 Hz...effects on tail lifting behaviour could be observed in a species of lizards at 6 and 8 Hz for a peak field of 2.6 µT...disruptive effects on alignment of ruminants by a 50 Hz field from high voltage electric power lines continued out to a distance between 20 and 100 m, where the field strengths are between 0.1 and 1 µT...1 µT 0.5 Hz magnetic field affected c-Fos expression, a measure of neuronal activity, in the navigation circuit in Ansell's mole-rats.” https://lnkd.in/dyFKDiU View in LinkedIn

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IMPACT ON LIFE. “Geomagnetic storms influence living systems. Biological objects respond to the slow (up to 0.001 Hz) changes of the geomagnetic field. These changes correspond to the main phase and the recovery phase of the geomagnetic storm.” https://lnkd.in/gXmp8h6 View in LinkedIn

SENSING MAGNETIC FIELDS. “Magnetoreception or magnetosensitivity, the ability of living organisms to respond to magnetic environments such as the geomagnetic field (GMF) and various artificial magnetic fields, has been well documented, especially in the animal kingdom.” https://lnkd.in/ggMJNzs View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF WEAK WAVES. “Weak radio waves in the medium-wave band are sufficient to disrupt geomagnetic orientation in migratory birds, according to a particularly well-controlled study. But the underlying biophysics remains a puzzle.” https://lnkd.in/gvFuEbC View in LinkedIn

SUNSPOT CYCLES. “Periodic episodes of increased sunspot activity (solar electromagnetic storms) occur with 10–11 and 5–6 year periodicities and may be associated with measurable biological events.” http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2010.0574 View in LinkedIn

IT STARTED WITH INTERSTELLAR DUST. The speculations of Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe started with the unlikely subject of interstellar dust. Who would devote a chunk of their life to the study of such a subject? As unlikely a start to astrobiology, this was the beginning, most famously in the then outrageous idea that much of this dust was composed of desiccated bacteria and viruses. View in LinkedIn

IT STARTED WITH DARWIN. Here is a stunning factoid. Before Darwin’s 1859 book, On the Origin of the Species, which suggested life arose in a warm pond, nobody in Western society questioned the origin of life, which was deemed to be God-given. The answer to this question was simply taken as a given. Ancient peoples the world over had creation myths, but these became suffused under the blanket of orthodox christian thinking in the West for about two thousand years. Genesis became our dominant myth. View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a very unusual white paper by Professor Jason T. Wright about the state of affairs in exobiology, the search for extraterrestrial life, astonishingly endorsed by 126 prominent people from academia, NASA, SETI, observatories, and industry. This section starts by five of quotes from the late Professor Fred Hoyle & Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, while at Cambridge University, the two truly remarkable scholars who set in motion the modern resurgence of Panspermia back in the 1970s; this topic is the sad mirror of humanity’s self-fixation that has (nearly) obliterated our curiosity. http://www.lifefromspace.com/Another-Beginning/Life-Cloud/ View in LinkedIn

THE TRUE BACKWATER. “Indeed, many in the public would be surprised to learn that the field is not part of the publicly-funded science portfolio, and how few scientists are actually involved in the search. The reasons for this are varied, but are ultimately social, not scientific.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn