But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.
Noise cancelling earbuds? Even the $30 ones are pretty good.
they don’t do a damn thing when the noise intensity or frequency just reverberates through your entire body… rumbles and shakes your house… or scares tf out of your dog.