A few days ago, I went with a friend to a public lecture on global warming at the local university. I sat beside a friend of mine and rolled my neck a bit to stretch it out.



"Eww. Does your neck always do that?" She said, mildly in disgust.



"Do what?" I replied.



"Make that sound?" The sound she was referring to was the sound that my neck has made for years, best demonstrated by a sixteen-wheeler driving over bubble wrap.



"It has for a while now, why… Continue