Summer is still here!
By Lolly Wigall I am so happy that it is still warm and a little humid. Hopefully, that will mean my tomatoes will ripen in the next few weeks. I didn’t plant them until the middle of June so they got a late start. I did pick two summer squash the other day. I keep…
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Using Technology and Visual Communication to Combat Industrial Noise
By Jack Rubinger It stands to reason that a 4-mile-long, ½-mile deep pit mine would require enormously powerful and gigantic trucks to haul iron ore from bottom to top. Along with the sheer enormity is the overpowering noise these trucks create. And that’s a major problem because noisy trucks are not in compliance with the…
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High-Intensity Acoustic Devices as Weapons: A look at the Legalities
By Fred Cohen It began innocently enough. A Pittsburgh newspaper announces a settlement with a professor who suffered hearing loss in September 2009 during the Group of 20 economic summit. The professor was in Pittsburgh studying the possible impact of protests on monetary policy and was about 100 feet away from a Long Range Acoustic…
Read MoreLet’s look to a friend across the ocean in combatting hearing loss
By David H. Kirkwood I spend quite a lot of time searching the web for information and ideas for my blogs, Hearing News Watch and Hearing Views. In doing so, I have become familiar with a 101-year-old British organization, Action on Hearing Loss. The more I learn about it, the more impressed I become. The…
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