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IN Mr. Darwin's article in NATURE for last week there is a passage about “the sense of direction being sometimes suddenly disarranged,” that brought to my mind assertions I had frequently heard made ...

The term sense of direction is made up of a lot of different components. If you've got a good sense of direction — as men are often rumored to — you never get lost or turned around in a foreign place, ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

Here’s an embarrassing but true revelation: My sense of direction is less than optimal. That has led to many conversations like this one some years ago with my copilot, who thought GPS was for sissies ...

Humans are really good at navigation. It’s how we managed — over eons — to migrate across the world’s great landmasses and oceans. It has enabled us to to find our way around areas as vast as space, ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I used to have a pathetic sense of direction. I couldn't find my way out of the proverbial paper bag. If I was driving and approached an intersection from an ...

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