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BioNav RIN 13

The Royal Institute of Navigation Conference RIN 13 – Bionav – is the world’s leading Animal Navigation conference took place at the Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, on 11-13 April 2013.  Leading scientists from all over the world participated and presented their work. All areas of animal navigation techniques were covered, including, in some…

Nature’s Radar – Tristan Gooley

Nature’s Radar a paper by Tristan Gooley (one of our heroes) published in the Journal of Navigation in October 2012. Tristan and a friend set out in a little boat to navigate from Kirkwall on the North of Ockney via the Faroes over the top of Iceland to Reykjavik. Please see http://www.naturalnavigator.com/nature’s_radar.pdf for the full paper. The…

Radar Ornithology – A Summary

In 1967 Eric Eastwood published a book called Radar Ornithology.  Whilst research has moved on since then, this is a seminal book and gives really useful hard information on the migration habits of Passerines including thrushes, continental robins, warblers, starlings and woodcock. These birds make their migratory journeys to England in the autumn from the…

Calcified Pineal Gland

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1419179/ This link takes you to an interesting article covering what happens when the Pineal Gland is calcified.  The fact that calcification of the Pineal really impairs navigational ability makes us think that this proves that the Pineal is critical to animal navigation. Richard Nissen Editor

Quantum ideas – Simon Ragett

Simon Ragett has created this website to discuss quantum ideas: http://www.quantum-mind.co.uk. WHAT THE SITE PROVIDES The site provides summaries and reviews of books, academic papers, articles and other material relevant to theories of consciousness related to fundamental physics. This includes the ideas of Penrose, Hameroff, Bohm, Stapp, Bernroider and others. The site also offers a blog for new material as it is…