The Mongolian Ger Compass
Mongolian traditional homes are structures like yurts and are known as ‘gers’. The doors of gers face south. This is a useful compass or GPS…
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Naturally Navigating Dartmoor
The Foggiest Idea by Tom Vanderbilt. Published in Outside Magazine December 2010. I’VE LATELY COME to the realization that my whole sense of direction has been slipping…
Naturally Navigating Dartmoor Part II
Naturally Navigating Dartmoor Part II Close to the Wind By Tristan Gooley (An edited version of the following article by Tristan Gooley was originally published…
Nobel Prize to ‘Human GPS’ Scientists
This week three scientists were recognised for their work on understanding the human brain’s ‘internal GPS system’, when they were awarded a Nobel Prize for…
Dead Reckoning and Path Integration (or How to Walk Like an Ant)
One of the questions I like to ask at the start of some courses is this: If you walk ten paces north, then ten paces…
GPS Brainwaves
Scientists at Stanford University in Palo Alto have unveiled a car navigation system capable of following basic instructions without the need for speech or touch…
Windvane Self-Steering
Although microchips have a childlike tendency to steal our attention away from almost anything else, I am not against technology itself. Once we have steeled…
Radio 4 and Natural Navigator Book Reviews
Welcome Radio 4 listeners! You have found your way to the home of natural navigation on the Internet. (A podcast of my walk with Evan…
Winter Solstice Drama
This is not the glorious image of the winter solstice sunrise that I had been planning for you. Events conspired against that. The original plan…