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Re:Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:00PM (#11939818)
I think (!!! the following not well researched, and part guessing) there is at least two different versions of tinnitus.

One is (the standard?) that you get from loud music and stress, which is the result of your inner ear / hair cells being damaged / misbehaving. Extreme-case: You permanently lose part of your hearing.

The second (rare?) is without impairment of hearing. To be honest you are the second person I know who shares my experience. And none of my doctors ever heard of this before. Most think I imagine this / or it's a psychological issue manifesting in your body. I'd guess it's some kind of nerve pinching, maybe bones/muscles are involved too. Hard to say.

A few years back when I researched this I found at least one study with 10-20 individuals who reported this kind of tinnitus, but seems very rare. The result was something like "Many factors are involved in creating a tinnitus".

Re:Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension on Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:17PM (#11934976)
I can provoke my tinnitus (make it audible and increase its volume a lot) by pulling my chin back / stiffen my neck in specific ways. I don't mind it. It always goes away soon after. But it's curious. Never got a proper diagnose for it.

(If someone wants me to participate in studies about this)

Re:Spaceship Generator on Saturday June 18, 2016 @02:55PM (#11930038)
Awesome work! Now I need website where I can just generate them and view them in webgl.
The theorem as stated in the article is definitely wrong. Equal length would make it correct, I think.