Imagine if you had voices in your head talking to you all the time. That would suck, right? Though at least you’d be having a conversation. What if instead, you had only an incessant whining noise, like a mosquito buzzing in your ear, that never goes away? I welcome you all to the wonderful world of tinnitus!
Now then. What if, in addition to the high-pitched squeal, you also heard a constant low-frequency rumble magnified by refrigerators, container ships, trucks, or any other idling machines within a one-mile radius? Welcome to the magical, mysterious World Hum! It’s magical + mysterious because only 2% of humans hear it and nobody knows how or why it develops. Though it is entirely possible that placing your head in front of Brian Chippendale’s kick drum for an hour might do the trick.
Issue: 17-1 (orig. pub. date: )
