![]() ![]() In winter, the sun rises in the south and sets in the north. The magnetic field tries to pull compass needles downward into the Earth’s crust. ![]() GPS only lasts as long as a battery, and it can guilelessly lead you along treacherous routes, across faulty sea ice, or into bad weather. Most of the common navigation skills that will get you by anywhere else are nearly useless in this environment. ![]() Just a few hundred yards outside of town there are no houses, lights, cars, railroads, signage or cell towers, just ice, snow, rocks, and combinations of these elements in jutting and cascading variations. It is one of the last roadless places on earth. I came to the Arctic because in many ways the landscape has hardly changed in the past four hundred years, or in the thousand years before that. Keep reading for an excerpt of Wayfinding. This captivating journey charts humanity’s profound capacity for wandering, memory, and storytelling, and it explores how exercising the brain through wayfinding can preserve the health of the hippocampus. ![]() O’Connor takes readers all over the world, from the frigid Arctic to Australia, talking to master navigators, scientists, and scholars along the way. Wayfinding is a fascinating look, both sweeping and intimate, at how finding our way makes us human. Home » World History » The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World Posted on Apby M. ![]()
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