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Wearing Headphones Will Kill You
Max Read · 01/17/12 10:00AMHello. Let's get right to the point: someday you will die. Maybe you'll sacrifice yourself to save a bus full of nuns, or die bringing food to starving children in a war zone, or pass away at the age of 90, surrounded by an enormous, loving family and all your Nobel prizes. More likely, though, you will get unceremoniously creamed by a fire truck because you couldn't hear its sirens over "How Will I Know":
New York Eliminates Horns on Taxis and Trash Cans in Subways
Brian Moylan · 10/25/11 01:56PMFlorida College Students Fight for Ban on Leaf Blowers
Matt Cherette · 10/04/11 03:51AMWhining Scientifically Proven to Be Most Annoying Sound
Max Read · 06/20/11 07:19PMNYPD Getting New, More Bone-Rattling Siren
Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/11 12:37PMAll of Manhattan Is 'Lethally Noisy'
Brian Moylan · 10/27/10 04:29PMYour Problems Are All In Your Head (But Still Fatal)
Hamilton Nolan · 10/27/10 02:49PMKatherine Heigl So Annoying, Neighbor Calls the Cops
Maureen O'Connor · 10/13/10 10:24AMDance Music Somehow Gets Worse
Hamilton Nolan · 06/23/10 02:58PMWant to Hear What the 'God Particle' Sounds Like?
Max Read · 06/22/10 09:30PMThe Large Hadron Collider is an enormous, $8 billion machine built to detect the existence of certain hypothesized-to-exist particles. But detect how? What if, instead of looking for particles, scientists could listen for them? This is what they'd sound like.
Let's Show These Aussies Hardcore Fitness USA Style
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/10 11:05AMGuerrilla Marketing Gone Bad
cityfile · 01/22/10 02:53PMThose really annoying trucks that drive around, clog up city streets, and serve no other purpose than to expose you to some dumb ad? They're getting an upgrade. Taking a cue from those horrific RVs that Lubavitch Jews use to proselytize with, the "mobile billboards" will soon blast music as they drive around town.