This #INAD2018 event is the social media version of a flash mob. An international silent social media Thunderclap to support International Noise Awareness Day 2018. An ironically named event sponsored by the quiet community active in 9 countries, including non-profit organizations and technical universities. Sign up to back this Thunderclap event with your twitter and/or Facebook and/or tumblr.
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The biggest public health crisis right now is from transportation noise pollution. Noise from airports and airplane flight corridors, traffic, railways, and public transit. Noise pollution hurts everyone, but children, pregnant women, the elderly, shift workers, people with chronic health problems, and noisier low income communities are most at risk. From chronic noise day after day, and night after night. Science proves that noise pollution causes chronic stress that damages physical and mental
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CDC Grand Rounds: Promoting Hearing Health Across the Lifespan (2018, Mar 2) had some alarming stats. Based on notched audiograms (one or both ears), 24% of non-occupational hearing loss in Americans is extrapolated to be from noise. This is an overestimate. Because audiometric notches, often called noise notches, can also be from age-related and genetic hearing loss. Evidence-based science shows you can’t blame all hearing tests with audiometric notches on noise. Unilateral hearing loss is never
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Employers and workers are applauding the recent launch of The Isolator. Developed with the help of a Kickstarter campaign, The Isolator won the 2018 Workwear Design Award for best new product. Independent scientific testing proves this product increases focus and concentration leading to 117% increase in workplace productivity. That’s more than twice as good.
The Isolator’s revolutionary vintage design completely cuts off all outside sound, while the eye socket slits focus the worker’s visual
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Scientists want to study mobile mental health apps to see what features would be the most benefit when developing apps for people distressed by tinnitus and hyperacusis. Which includes people in the “normal” hearing, hearing loss and Deaf community. It’s good news. Except it takes at least 1 to 2 years for research to get published. That’s a long time to wait if you’re distressed. Speaking from personal experience, I’d rather get some helpful techniques and exercises from an app as soon
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