Often described as a ringing or buzzing noise in the ear‚ tinnitus affects millions of people around the world and yet has no cure. However‚ researchers have now found that‚ with the help of a smartphone app that gives users training and therapy‚ the debilitating impact of tinnitus could be significantly reduced in a matter of weeks.The findings come as the result of a trial exploring the use of an app‚ MindEar‚ to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)‚ which aims to change the way a person thinks about their tinnitus so that it becomes less noticeable.Researchers recruited 30 adults with tinnitus and split them into two groups; one received CBT via MindEar’s chatbot‚ Tinnibot‚ whilst the other had access to four 30-minute online counseling sessions alongside CBT with Tinnibot. The intervention lasted for 8 weeks‚ but the participants were followed up for a further 2 months.Study participants chatted to Tinnibot.Image credit: MindEarThe study found that in both groups‚ the participants’ tinnitus-related distress decreased significantly over time. “In our trial‚ two thirds of users of our chatbot saw improvement after 16 weeks. This was shortened to only 8 weeks when patients additionally had access to an online psychologist‚” said lead author and co-founder of MindEar Dr Fabrice Bardy in a statement.Tinnitus‚ which is thought to affect more than 740 million adults globally‚ can sometimes go away on its own. For those in whom it remains‚ however‚ the unpleasant buzzing‚ grinding‚ or ringing sounds that characterize it can be life-changing. People with tinnitus can experience significant changes to their hearing‚ concentration‚ and mood‚ sometimes to the point of anxiety and depression.Whilst there isn’t a cure for tinnitus‚ there are management strategies. “One of the most common misconceptions about tinnitus is that there is nothing you can do about it; that you just have to live with it. This is simply not true. Professional help from those with expertise in tinnitus support can reduce the fear and anxiety attached to the sound patients experience‚” said Bardy.The issue comes in accessing such help‚ as fellow study author and psychologist Professor Suzanne Purdy explained. “Cognitive behavioural therapy is known to help people with tinnitus‚ but it requires a trained psychologist. That’s expensive‚ and often difficult to access.” That’s where MindEar and Tinnibot hope to fit in‚ with the researchers concluding that their findings demonstrate that internet-based delivery of CBT represents a more accessible and highly effective tool for managing tinnitus. It’s also hoped that future studies will help to make the experience more individualized‚ figuring out if there’s a relationship between particular characteristics of a tinnitus patient and how successful different modes of therapy are.This isn’t the first attempt at using tech to treat tinnitus either. Back in 2022‚ scientists trialed an app using sound therapy‚ whilst earlier research even tried out tongue-zapping as a treatment.The study is published in Frontiers in Audiology and Otology.

Have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect? It’s a phenomenon where a large number of people remember something differently than how it actually is. For example‚ some people swear that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s‚ while others remember him becoming the president of South Africa in the 1990s. How can this be? One of the most famous examples of the Mandela Effect is the Fruit of the Loom logo. Many people remember seeing a cornucopia‚ or a horn of plenty‚ behind the fruits in the logo. However‚ if you look at the actual logo‚ there is no cornucopia at all. Just fruits. Like many others‚ I was convinced that the cornucopia has disappeared from the famous Fruit of the Loom logo‚ and in my opinion‚ it’s one of the strongest Mandela Effects‚ because of the left-over residual evidence of its existence‚ coupled with the huge amount of people that are certain it was there‚ including employees of the company. Artist recreation of logo: Cancelled TM filed by company mentioning cornucopia you can find here. Logo in “The Ant Bully”: Newspaper article from 1994. It says the logo had a cornucopia. Frank Wess album cover (inspired by the Fruit of the Loom logo): From South Park S16 E6 – I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining: All official responses from the company itself say that there was never a cornucopia in the logo: But how can so many people remember something that never existed? Did they see it in a different reality‚ where the logo had a cornucopia? Or did someone erase the cornucopia from their minds‚ and if so‚ why? One possible explanation is that these people are experiencing memories from alternate realities‚ where things happened differently than in our reality. Another possibility is that they are victims of psyops‚ or psychological operations‚ where someone deliberately manipulates their memories to achieve a certain goal. There are many theories and speculations about this mystery‚ but no definitive answers. Some people think that the cornucopia represents abundance and prosperity‚ and that someone removed it to make people feel less satisfied with their lives. Others think that the cornucopia is a symbol of ancient pagan religions‚ and that someone removed it to promote Christianity. And some others think that the cornucopia is just a random detail that people imagined or confused with something else. Whatever the case may be‚ the Fruit of the Loom logo is one of the most intriguing examples of the Mandela Effect‚ and it raises many questions about the nature of reality and memory. Is there more than one reality‚ and can we access them? Or are we living in a simulation‚ where someone can change things at will? Or are we just prone to errors and illusions‚ and need to be more careful with what we believe? What about you‚ do you remember the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo? The post Mystery of the Missing Cornucopia: A Mandela Effect Case Study appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The climate fanatics at The Washington Post treated an old oxymoronic article claiming that man-made global warming causing more Alaska blizzards as front-page news. The Post took its Dec. 16‚ 2023‚ eco-propaganda headlined‚ “As Alaska’s climate gets wetter‚ snowstorms put the homeless in peril‚” and plastered it onto the front page of the Jan. 8 print edition of the newspaper. Yes‚ you read that right. The newspaper effectively just broke old news. Apparently‚ regurgitating weeks-old agitprop was more important to the newspaper than the recent disturbing news that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hid his hospitalization for days without DOD officials or President Joe Biden knowing about it. Instead‚ The Post pushed the controversy to page A3 of The Post’s print edition. Talk about NOT getting one’s priorities straight.   The Alaska piece doom-mongered over the “recent onslaught of extreme precipitation‚” which so-called climate scientists reportedly “predict will worsen as the atmosphere warms.” Strikingly‚ the leftist media writ large can’t get their stories straight and are trying to have their cake and eat it too. Reuters‚ for example‚ published another story around the same time as The Post’s article claiming “global warming” led to no snow in Canada. Huh? So either global warming either causes too much snow or no snow at all. Which one is it? Even The New York Times recently published an op-ed by contributing Opinion writer Elizabeth Spiers predicting “The End of Snow” because of climate change.  As JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy told MRC Business‚ any problem‚ natural phenomenon or societal ill can somehow be blamed on climate change if climate activists butcher common sense hard enough. “The global warming narrative has been set up so that all  problems – whether environmental‚ social and/or geopolitical – can be blamed on fossil fuel use. This is not science. Just politics‚” Milloy rebuked. “So global warming is now about fretting cold weather and snow in Alaska?”  Two-faced‚ say-anything global warming propaganda: 1. Global warming caused snow in Alaska. https://t.co/WMYoCV5vFD 2. Global warming caused no snow in Canada. https://t.co/aWSt378z7Q Reality: Emissions have no effect on weather or climate. pic.twitter.com/FNdJ64ICRm — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 23‚ 2023 This appears to be the case for The Post‚ which infused an anti-human screed into its oxymoronic reporting: “Over the past 70 years‚ Anchorage has warmed 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit‚ according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration temperature data taken from the airport‚ driven by humans burning fossil fuels.” Climate Depot Marc Morano also ripped The Post for publishing what he described as “parody.”  “Too little snow? Global warming. Too much snow? Global warming. There's no way to falsify the global warming hypothesis‚” Morano told MRC Business. In his view‚ “It's very hard to keep track of these contradictory claims. Global warming was supposed to mean 'the end of snow‚’ but now all of a sudden global warming somehow means the homeless suffer from record snow." Morano pointed the MRC to a ridiculous 2000 Independent article claiming that “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” due to global warming as an example of climate change-obsessed media constantly moving goalposts.   Of course‚ nowhere did The Post mention the existence of the current El Niño phenomenon as an explanation for Alaska’s current weather conditions. As the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported on Aug. 16‚ 2023‚ “El Niño may result in less of the 40- to 50- below zero cold spells known all too well for people living in the [Alaska] Interior.” In essence‚ “That means snow could become heavier‚ putting strain on the roofs of houses.”  The term “El Niño” doesn’t appear once in The Post’s 1‚903-word piece‚ even as it bemoaned the “[t]he heavy‚ wet snow” that “fell like a thick blanket on the homeless encampment near Davis Park in a patch of woods off Mountain View Drive.” But the “heavy‚ wet snow” was already predicted earlier as a probable side effect of El Niño.  The newspaper‚ in effect‚ exploited the plight of the affected homeless population to bang out climate change propaganda about humans burning fossil fuels.  The Post managed to describe the effects of El Niño without mentioning it directly. “The storm had originated in a part of the Pacific Ocean south of the Aleutian Islands where surface temperatures have been anomalously warm for this time of year. With warmer temperatures‚ more moisture is available for storms.” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration itself predicted this would happen in October 2023 as a result of El Niño: “From December through February‚ NOAA predicts wetter-than-average conditions for northern Alaska.” But the phenomenon wasn’t even worth a footnote in The Post’s long-form climate babble. The Post seems to be operating by the principle “Never let a good crisis go to waste”  to push its ridiculous eco-agitprop.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact The Washington Post at 202-334-6000 and tell it to stop regurgitating old eco-agitprop as front page news.

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