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Magnetic therapy makes me feel sick to my stomach for reasons that have for long been unknown to me. I'm more comfortable with the idea of undergoing electroconvulsive therapy than something that involves magnets. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much, but it does to an unusual degree.



Human emotional responses to wireless technology, even before the invention of said technology, are very interesting. Check out the wiki page for James Tilly Matthews.


Yikes, hope I'm not a hatter like this dude. Thanks for sharing, lead me to discover the Travels Through Time podcast and listened to this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7GdAHr7ZHU


Odd coincidence. The link to “pneumatic chemistry” in that article is purple because I was just reading about the history of bismuth.




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