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A Mysterious Sound that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly Is Driving People Insane the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim Nobody Knows What's Causing It because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
Soon people will start destroying all the machines!
This is pretty interesting because I've been hearing a low-frequency hum for the last few years -- since moving into my current home. I only notice it at night, lying in bed when it is quiet. To me, it sounds like an idling car sitting within a few hundred feet of my house. At first, I suspected cops were sitting near my house (on a corner, near a stop sign) waiting for people to run the stop sign, but I never found…
Couldn't it just be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus As I get older, I hear some sounds I am certain are like tinnitus. It terrifies me because I love and need quiet. But so far I've been able to move around, create some other sounds, and the fake sound stops. But tinnitus is a disease of old age.
I have suffered tinnitus on and off since my late teens. It became permanent around 4 years ago. I don't think this phenomena is related - if you have tinnitus you know you have it.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=cartogram&tbm=isch
Those are neat, but from what I can tell a cartogram is something different from what I'm describing. From wikipedia: "A cartogram is a map in which some thematic mapping variable – such as travel time, population, or Gross National Product – is substituted for land area or distance." So they're basically distorted maps, where the distortions are proportional to a variable. (It might help to include some explanation…
Therefore, each pixel of the cartogram contains an equal number of people in it.
If you bin your heatmap into pixels with equal number of people in them, then HOT regions in the final image will correspond not merely to the number of people who live in an area (like in the xkcd), but to the percentage of a constant number of people.
You can still recognize the underlying geography, because the population density isn't CRAZY skewed.
Here are some well-documented cartograms that give you a feel for what they can do:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/11/01/163632378...
That map looks just like a population map of the USA and UK, plus assorted English speakers from western Europe. Combined with the fact that the sound seems to grow stronger indoors, I think the source is inside their own heads. Not in the sense that they're crazy, though. Maybe as people get older and their inner ear changes slightly, the signals that are being sent when everything is silent also change, but the bra…
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I have suffered tinnitus on and off since my late teens. It became permanent around 4 years ago. I don't think this phenomena is related - if you have tinnitus you know you have it.
How do you know you have it? I've had a particular high pitched sound in my head that's apparent as soon as the ambient sound in the room goes down to a certain threshold. It's been that way for as long as I can remember, and I'd just assumed it was that way for everyone. Is that not the case? What should absence of sound in a room sound like to a normal observer?