Men Have a Compass in Their Head

Supposedly there is a deposit of magnetite that collects in the bone in the skull of humans to assist in the instinct of orientation and direction finding.

According to this article in the Register.

Do humans have a compass in their nose?

Some years ago scientists at CALTECH discovered that humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone, located between your eyes, just behind the nose.

Magnetite is a magnetic mineral also possessed by homing pigeons, migratory salmon, dolphins, honeybees, and bats.

It seems that magnetite helps direction finding in animals and helps migratory species migrate successfully by allowing them to draw upon the earth’s magnetic fields. But scientists are not sure how they do this.

In any case, when it comes to humans experts have even suggested that this “compass” was helpful in human evolution as it made migration and hunting easier and magnetite makes the ethmoid bone sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field and helps your sense of direction.

Im fairly certain that men are more attuned to this inbuilt compass than women are. Or at least, we men like to believe that we are more attuned to it. I know a lot of women that have difficulty navigating by map, much less by sunlight, compass or instinct.

In women, I think there is a crystal in the head that engages the motor skills of the tongue and jaws whenever a man tries to hone in on his own internal compass. This innate instinct usually manifests itself in a series of nagging questions and statements, such as:

• Are you sure you know where we are going?
• You are going to get us lost.
• You have no idea where we are do you?
• None of this looks familiar to me.
• That strange homeless fellow over there looks nice. Ask him how to get back to the interstate.
• Are we going on safari? Where are you taking us?