Like other indulgences in life, excess exposure to intense low frequencies can be very tiring and ultimately harmful. Although the ear may be a little more tolerant at low frequencies, eventually this immediate gratification would seem to be without penalty because the gradual increase in damage is...
Untreated hearing loss has been linked to dementia, depression, falls and other serious health conditions. It can also leave people feeling isolated and make it difficult to participate in once-loved activities. Addressing hearing loss is an important part of maintaining good health. Impacts of H...
Those air particles in turn move the air particles around them, carrying the pulse of the vibration through the air.To see how this works, let's look at a simple vibrating object: a bell. When you hit a bell, the metal vibrates -- flexes in and out. When it flexes out on one ...
‘It used to be considered,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, ‘that Miss Gradgrind was wanting in animation, but I confess she appears to me considerably and strikingly improved in that respect. Ay, and indeed here is Mr. Bounderby!’ cried Mrs. Sparsit, nodding her head a great many times, as ...
pulse (which is one way of understanding the relatively regular beat of European poetry) but to the breath—a different kind of measure, still bodily, but more fluid. One aim of Olson and his associates was a new freedom with form by which they could be both distinctively modern and ...
Genevieve Moss has profound hearing loss, and she was feeling lonely and isolated as she flipped through the local newspaper at her home in Chesterfield, England. “Being in a silent world and living alone without any human support caused a lot of distress and anxiety,” Moss said in an ema...