HAVE YOU HEARD THE HUM?

Is there a HUM? People are hearing a HUM. Videos and recordings confirm there's a HUM.

I never heard of "The HUM" until I read about it the other day,  but I can't stand noise -- but when I hear my neighbor's highfi -- the bass beat reverberating in my walls --I go nuts.




This is a photo of the HUM which The Week Magazine published a few weeks ago.

Some folks have described it as sounding like a heavy diesel engine idling in the distance. Others say  the sound starts low and becomes a high pitched buzz. This map shows that it's been reported from everywhere in the world -- from Vancouver in Canada to Europe, Asia,  Australia, and New Zealand.

Is this mysterious noise a provable scientific fact -- is it real, or a delusion?

Researching, I learned that throughout the 20th and now, in the 21st century, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have reported hearing  it. It started drawing media attention in England when the Bristol Sunday Mirror asked, in 1977, “Have You Heard the Hum?” Letters came flooding in from places that were far from the hustle and bustle of cities, describing an idling diesel engine noise that was audible at night, mostly indoors.

A nurse in a small village in Scotland said, "A thick, low hum permeating the entire house is keeping me awake. My husband, who had tinnitus, doesn't hear it but people look at me like I was mad. It makes me sometimes dizzy and nauseous."

Doctors have said the noise could be as a result of tinnitus or Ménière’s disease, but nothing conclusive has been published in medical journals. Hearing protectors do not help. Patients have  reported that wearing ear plugs, the body vibrated. High quality microphones cannot record the sound, and more often than not, other people in the immediate vicinity can hear nothing.

Experts have said the sound could be industrial equipment, or high pressure gas lines, wireless communication devices, electrical power lines, electromagnetic radiation, the mating calls of fish reverberating off ship hulls and buildings.

In 2010, Time Magazine listed The Hum as the 7th most annoying sound in the world, while Livescience featured it in their :‘Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon.”

I read this to my husband who said, "Good God, we already have enough unexplained things to worry about," so I showed him these two videos.

 2006: Taos, New Mexico. 


Spain, in 2013.


THE HUM is real. If you've heard it, tell others about it -- use social media to apread the word so that scientists will find out what's causing it and what we need to do about it.

LATEST FOOD NEWS

CAULIFLOWLER
Fried, pickled, raw -- or as a super-delicious sauce for chicken wings, or your main entree -- roasted Cauliflower Tandoori with cilantro/onion chutney that you eat with your fork and steak knife.

Someone gave us three large containers of homemade Cauliflower soup for Xmas. My husband had potful of my Hungarian stuffed cabbage to devour, a recipe I learned from watching my mother. I ended up enjoying every last drop of the soup while John feasted on my cabbage rolls.

SUGAR WAR 
"The Case Against Sugar" best seller published six months ago, with numbers and thorough research, shows us that the  sugar industry's been covering up its role in  heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancers. Although US consumption of sugar has decreased, manufacturers are making up for it by adding the "bad for you" saturated fats the FDA removed in 2015.

Since we stopped using sugar, use Sweet & Lo, or Splenda rather than sugar. I know the no-no's about artificial sweeteners. Based on my own observations, I ignore them.

KETOGENIC DIET
This low-carb, high-fat diet, based on a diet that reduced epiletic fits -- wow -- more than 20 studies show it  can help you lose weight and prevent diabetes, cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer's. Weight loss seekers are loving this diet -- eating bacon burgers, and other high fat foods, starving the body of glucose apparently turns you into a fat burning machine.

The Ketogenic diet reminds me of the Atkins diet, which worked at first, but was difficult to maintain. Dr. Atkins had a doctorly crush on me in my dancer days. I wasn't overweight but thought the diet would give me more energy. He taught me to make a cottage cheese pie with heavy cream, and cinnamon -- something delicious I could snack on all day without feeling tired.

EDIBLE CHARCOAL
The charcoal that's in water purifiers, is now in food. You now can order charcoal burger buns, lattes, even charcoal ice cream. Can you picture yourself licking a black ice cream cone, or eating a hamburger on that black bun?

Doctors say charcoal absorbs just about anything bad that you eat -- including medications and nutrients, but yay, you can gobble a forbidden fantastic dessert, without gaining those pounds.

Hmmm....

Here's some new new snacks to try.  (click link -- you'll see each one in glorious detail.

I must say I'd probably enjoy the Bantam Bagels.

Bet my husband would love the Texas Tamales, or the
Peanut Butter Banana Bites.

Which of these snacks would you love to taste right now?

I'm longing for spring weather, and a double dip cone of black ice cream with sprinkles.

(VIDEO) UM--MY TOPIC GOT LOST ..

What Emily wants to talk about is her husband's way of thinking. But that is not what John Cullum is in the mood to discuss.

Never quite answering her questions, chatting a little about this and that, John explains why it helps him to examine complex issues in imaginary conversations with with philosophers like Aristotle and Stephen Hawking. 

ME TOO! YOU TOO!

All the women pictured in this issue, called "THE SILENCE BREAKERS," have been praised for telling how and when they were abused by powerful men.

Yes, they are brave. It took courage to reveal the details -- sexual specifics of what was done to them. And now there are shocking, detailed revelations from more than 100 young girls who were molested, abused by the former USA gymnastics team doctor, and sports physician for Michigan State University.

We're into the first phase of a revolution that may change the way children are brought up, and will affect our culture. But there is an element in what happened to the women on the cover of Time Magazine, the MSU gymnasts, as well as the Me Too women all in white at the Grammys, that is not being mentioned.

Being a woman, I know how I was taught from day one of my life to be female, be like my mother,  her mother, grandma and all the mothers before her -- to be sugar and spice and everything nice. To be sweet, charming, cute, sexy-seductive-lovable, in behavior, clothes, language -- in all the ways a baby, little girl, young lady, grownup lady, woman should be whatever she does, whatever career she chooses. It relates to why the gymnasts at Michigan State University didn't tell about the abuse for many years.

Your femininity helps get you to the next level and next -- get more help, more attention from the coach and other experts -- it gets you into meetings with powerfully important men and women who can help you be more successful. The women, and young girls who have been abused got themselves into a situation with an abuser because they needed something from the abuser.

And the abusers, the men, even MSU's sports physician, who've been taught, trained, conditioned by our culture from infancy as snips and snails, and puppy dog tails, into needing to do what they did -- that is not being mentioned either.

Hopefully, the thousands of things that shape us -- especially movies, television, music, and commerce-related ads -- what "Victoria's Secrets" sells us, what we buy, love to wear, and try to be -- will change.

It's starting to happen. It could change how males and females need to behave if we change the sugar and spice aspects of femininity, the puppy dog elements of masculinity, and become truthful, straight forward in pursuing our dreams, needs, and goals.

I showed this to my husband. He said, "Don't publish this, A lot of people are going to be offended by this."  If you're offended, I'm sorry but its what I perceive as the truth.