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The NY Times reports today that passive nose is becoming a major factor that is causing binaural hearing losses.
"Your ears don't get more tolerant. Your psyche gets more tolerant."
DR. GORDON HUGHES, director for clinical trials at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, on the dangers of increasingly higher noise levels in public places.
Read the complete articles:
Working or Playing Indoors, New Yorkers Face an Unabated Roar (NY Times)A Sound Tour of NY City (NY Times)
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