I am stunned by the honour of being labelled a resident crackpot!! :-)
Personally on the music thing. One of my (crackpot?) hates is the omnipresence of manufactured music EVERYWHERE! Even my dentist wanted me to listen to some while she was dealing with saving the teeth I still have left!!! She was mortified when I suggested I prefer silence. She was of the opinion that research shows that music helps patients endure dentistry. (I suppose by distracting you from the whirring instrument of torture hovering close to your face).
In my opinion music, when it is played, deserves to be listened to attentively.
It certainly has its place in the lives of those living with dementia, and I have seen how responsive non-vocal children can be when music is played, and, oddly, especially when that music is live.
To return to the 'rumbles' A lot of people have suggested that coal seam fracking is responsible, not only for the rumbling, but also for small earthquakes. This point of view interests me as it is proposed to mine using this technique in much of Australia, and has started in Queensland already.
