There's an interesting article about human navigation today on Not Exactly Rocket Science: Do lost people really go round in circles?
But it turns out that they don't have any preference for one direction over the other...
By dropping people into a German forest, the Sahara desert or blindfolded in a field, scientists show that people really do walk in circles when they're lost, but only if there aren't any obvious reference points.
But it turns out that they don't have any preference for one direction over the other...