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Earlier this week, a reader contacted me with a dilemma: his wife has always had super sharp hearing when it comes to environmental / ambient noise. She can “hear a gnat blink at 1,000 yards. Forty years ago, she could hear electronic…

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Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort people's perception of time. The findings…

In a major discovery that is likely to change…

Simon and Garfunkel may have got it right - there is such a thing as the sound of silence.Or, at least, we perceive silence just like we do sound, a study suggests. For centuries, philosophers have suggested human beings do not ‘hear’…