Yay! Ferrite Cores are back in fashion (unpacks his flared trousers)

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-phenomenon-nanodisk-magnetic-vortices.html
New phenomenon in nanodisk magnetic vortices

Reinventing Magnetic Core Memory | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/103415/Reinventing-Magnetic-Core-Memory

How magnets affect the human brain - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/11/how-magnets-affect-t.html

How birds see magnetic fields – an interview with Thorsten Ritz | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/how-birds-see-magnetic-fields-%e2%80%93-an-interview-with-thorsten-ritz/

Birds have built in magnetometer? Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/01/birds-have-built-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
First thing I thought of was to build a degaussing coil into my home's chimney
(Sorry Chris, it was...)

A 10-foot spinning orb to replicate Earth's magnetic field

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/09/_behold_a_30-to.php