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Amazing Subtitle Award: Night Watch

15. February 2009

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Night Watch, the Russian horror film that outgrossed Spider-Man 2 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King at the Russian box office, is available to US audiences in a sleek DVD version that includes cutting edge graphically designed subtitles. The subtitles are downright startling, artful, and stylish. The subtitles dance with the action, [...]

Test Your Own Hearing

10. February 2009

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There are several websites that enable you to test your own hearing. One of my favorites is the one available from The University of New South Wales website- its fairly easy to use and tests a frequency range of 30hz to 16hz. That’s wider than your computer speakers will work so you’ll need a nice [...]

Guest Article: "My Ear Cleaning Story"

30. April 2008

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Thanks to Jeff Roth, the author of this story: I have never been clear about the proper way to keep my ears clean. I had grown up being told by my doctor that “the ears naturally clean themselves.” The advice was to clean the outside of the ear canal, but do not go inside, as [...]

Psilocybin and Hearing Loss

4. April 2008

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Mind altering substances of many kinds may have something to teach us but they’ve been mostly dismissed, demonized, and cast into broad legal categories that aren’t meaningful. I had a curious experience a number years ago with one of these schedule 1 substances that led to a bit of an epiphany. No, I didn’t discover [...]

Great Ear Plugs for Concerts: Etymotic Research

17. March 2008

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A typical earplug from Walgreen’s squelches so much sound that I don’t really enjoy concerts with them. Most earplugs are made of high density foam that muffle speech and music- they reduce sound more in the high frequencies (that I really need) than the mid and low frequencies, which makes the sound unnatural and unclear. [...]

Watches for the Hearing Impaired: One Failed Experiment

15. September 2007

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If you have a high frequency hearing loss (the most common kind) – then you aren’t likely to hear a thing coming out of the alarm clock of your digital watch. Alarm clocks beside the bed are a different matter- you can usually adjust the volume and have it set to a cacophonous radio station. [...]

Traveling with Hearing Aids: Tips and Tricks

5. August 2007

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[digg=http://digg.com/gadgets/Traveling_with_Hearing_Aids_Tricks_and_Tips] Traveling with hearing aids can be a taxing business. It’s easier to deal with breakdowns at repairs at home within a familiar infrastructure. A potential onslaught of moisture, theft, and unexpected breakdowns await. Instead I just try to prevent and avoid disaster. I depend on my hearing aids while traveling even more than I [...]

Testing Hearing Aids: Real World Conditions

1. August 2007

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I’ve always found it fairly ineffective to evaluate how well my hearing aids are working in the sterilized, rectilinear office of my audiologist. The fitting needs to begin with the audiologist- an important step for me in figuring out exactly what which aid and what amplification works best for me. However- the office hardly mimics [...]