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This background article opens up an aspect only briefly touched upon in the graphic novel Electric Life.

Publisher: Macmillan, 23rd Street
Hardcover: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1250868408
ISBN-13: 978-1250868404

How Electricity Supports Life in the Oceans

The ocean has countless biodiverse ecosystems: coral reefs, seagrass, deep-sea habitat. But actually, we know more about the moon than about the oceans. Text © Sander Funneman, Illustrations © Peter […]

Brainpower Extends Range of Car Key Remote Control

In 2014 a research was done in a car park. It revealed a fascinating phenomenon: the significant extension of the range of a car key’s remote control by simply holding […]

Insects, the hidden architects of atmospheric electricity

Background article, graphic novel: Electric Life. Text Sander Funneman, illustrations Peter Brouwers Text © Sander Funneman, Illustrations © Peter Brouwers The electric dance between flora and fauna is a tale […]

Coral Reefs: Extra

This article is continuing with the amazing way in which coral reefs seem to behave as electric ecosystems, and provides ideas about how this electric side might provide keys as […]

Coral Reefs as Electric Ecosystems

This article is about the amazing way coral reefs seem to behave as electric ecosystems, and provides ideas how this electric side might provide keys as to how to help […]

A history of the future

Some plasma physicists describe a historic world with a much more powerfulelectro climate. How did that affect the people at that time? What if thoseconditions return? Text © Sander Funneman, […]

Getting interested in the electric side of Life

This story, which eventually led to writing the graphic novel Electric Life, started some forty years ago, when formal education had convinced me that everything in life works by chemical […]

What’s the timekeeper of the biological clock?

Everything in nature has a rhythm. In the body this rhythm has a clock. Surprisingly, in the human this clock connects our body to the bigger context of the Earth’s […]

Vitamins of light and color

Light and color do something to us, and to everything that lives. Humans, plants and animals respond to the subtle instructions of light and color. Text © Sander Funneman, Illustrations […]

Food for the feet

Natural electrical currents run throughout the ecosystem. This is about howeverything in nature practices multiple ways of grounding to receive thenurturing electric influence of the planet. Text © Sander Funneman, […]