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New comment by Salmoneo in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

Salmoneo — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:15:44 +0000

I saw a documentary where a vocal coach used a similar technique to help metal singers sing in a way that didn't destroy their throat and vocal chords

New comment by Salmoneo in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

Salmoneo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:25:25 +0000

I'm 35. I've got tinnitus since I was 9/10 years old. The insurgence of my tinnitus is interesting: I got it after sleeping an entire night with a television static after watching a VHS. Another interesting aspect is that the aforementioned insurgence happened in 2 phases: I went asleep watching a VHS and the subsequent static sound made me hear a ringing sound for a while (some days IIRC) then disappeared; a week after that I went asleep again in the same way (vhs, static etc) and from that moment onward I always got a ringing. It sounds like when you turn on a ctr tv. Initially I was kind of alarmed. No one believed me and I found the existence of the condition after many years on tv or internet. My brain filter the sound most of the time so I live with the condition.

New comment by Salmoneo in "Science fiction and the death of the sun"

Salmoneo — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:48:30 +0000

Another entry in the dying Earth/Sun or Last Civilization approach is The Phoenix in Obsidian aka The Silver Warriors from 1970 by the oft forgotten but quite seminal Micheal Moorcock of Elric fame, but He wrote way more than that. Set in a frozen Earth and with a Sun that is just a white dwarf. The last surviving sea is so salty and dense is gelatinous and ship actually "flap" over it. It's part of the John Daker/Ereköse series, and in turn part of the bigger inter-books Moorcokian Multiverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_in_Obsidian