[Farmer Dean]

Time to stick Jimmah’s head in an MRI machine for a few days,this research supports it!

[BlazingArizona]

So why does my wife’s IQ always drop when she gets too close to a refrigerator?

[pabianice]

I’ll believe it when they film mice successfully parallel parking at the senior center...

[Cicero]

Perhaps there were “large increases in the proliferation of stem cells” because the magnets fried their brains, and they were trying to grow new ones.

[Calvin Locke]

This is too easy: Haven't you seen those ads to increase fuel mileage by attaching magnets to the fuel line of your [gasoline powered] automobile?

How about the magnets for treating your drinking water?

Well, I bet the same polarizing principle is at work here, and works just as well as my two cited examples....

OTOH, there's a magnet in my pillow speaker, and I still haven't been able to figure out Bush's insanity on illegal aliens.

[Psycho_Bunny]

This magnet stuff's never made any sense to me. Smells like snake oil.

[Mount Athos]

those tin foil hat guys were on to something, they just had to magnetize the foil

[David_G_Burnet]

Oh good, I can stop wearing my magic metal bracelet.

[Dumpster Baby]

I pounded some magnetized nails into my skull, and I really learned a lot from that!

[jiggyboy]

if you're really dumb, use a big one, and put your head right in the middle

[Bobalu]

Basically a TMS stimulator is a bank of High-Voltage capacitors repeatedly charged and then dumped into a small coil of 1 inch or so. The coil has only a few turns and thus the amperage is astronomical! Run ohms law on 2000+ V dumped into a small coil with only a tiny fraction of an ohm resistance! The magnetic pulses are stronger than the static field created by an MRI machine...several Tesla! A pulse of this magnitude induces a current into the tissue it passes through.

The device is actually VERY simple in design...only a few parts but the currents involved make experimenting with one a dangerous hobby....for a tiny fraction of a second the current pulse through the coil is enough to power a small city.

The coils are sometimes kept cool with a flow of oil.
They are usually made of a very stiff silver/copper conductor...VERY hard to wind into a coil.

Capacitors designed for the starting of large motors are suitable for these devices.

The solid state switching device is the most expensive component.

The collapsing magnetic field is usually used to re-charge the caps...this allows you to power the unit from an ordinary 120v ac outlet.

[Kevmo]

I haven’t read this article, this is my way of bumping for later reading on something that looks interesting & might be suitable for your not-a-ping list