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Sounds We've Lost: Echoes of the Past

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Impact of Losing Silence on Us

Madeline Ashby is a futurist and science fiction writer. She says we are always inhabiting a world of sounds that can go away at any time. We rarely actually hear the sound of silence any longer, she says. It's like light pollution, except with sound. How is this constant noise affecting us? We'll find out after the break.

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