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By: Norman

Construction noise from pile drilling for the new Granite Island causeway is driving mother whales away during birthing season, conservationists say. Clare PeddieClimate & Environment Editor A southern right whale has returned back to the sea after a brief stay in Wallace Lake on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. WHALE watchers and […]

By: Norman

Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, Bond University July 5, 2021 If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it. Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. Employee complaints about this design are rife. Yet there is little experimental research investigating the effects of […]

Poor hearing is not just an annoying inconvenience. Dec. 31, 2018 The earsplitting sound of ambulance sirens in New York City is surely hastening the day when I and many others repeatedly subjected to such noise will be forced to get hearing aids. I just hope this doesn’t happen before 2021 or so when these…

June 27, 2018 Authors Jonathan D Moreno Professor of Ethics, University of Pennsylvania Sergio Litewka Professor of Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami The recent evacuation of a group of U.S. diplomatic personnel stationed in Guangzhou, China, revived concerns over an “attack” that originated in Havana in mid-2016. At that time, several U.S. individuals…

‘One of the rules of sleep rituals is, whatever works for you’- Mathias Basner. HEIDI MITCHELL The Wall Street Journal Falling into a dream state can be anxiety-inducing for the around 25 per cent of people who say they have difficulty sleeping most nights. Some turn to music, hoping gentle sounds will guide them to…