Quinn Norton, a San Francisco journalist, had a tiny magnet implanted in her finger, which enabled her to detect electrical fields. Bits of my laptop became familiar as tingles and buzzes. Every so often I would pass near something and get an unexpected vibration. Live phone pairs on the sides of houses sometimes startled me. You might think of self-experimentation as a modern version of “know thyself” but this is “know the rest of the world”.

Quinn Norton, a San Francisco journalist, had a tiny magnet implanted in her finger, which enabled her to detect electrical fields.

Bits of my laptop became familiar as tingles and buzzes. Every so often I would pass near something and get an unexpected vibration. Live phone pairs on the sides of houses sometimes startled me.

You might think of self-experimentation as a modern version of “know thyself” but this is “know the rest of the world”.

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Seth Roberts

I am a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of The Shangri-La Diet. My expertise is in self-experimentation; one of my papers about that is Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas:Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. I also have a personal blog here . Seth Roberts Read more