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186: No Such Thing As Russian Hacking in the Cockroach Election

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Can We See Magnetic Fields?

There is a theory that the very earliest bacteria were magnetic. Mollusks have magnetite capped teeth, but when i say teeth, their tongue is made of teeth. There are some bacteria which contain magnetite in them. A lot of farmers give their cows magnets when they've got hardware disease. The cryptochromes we have in our eyes suggests that at one point we did use it to see magnetic fields.

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