Hearing Informed

Great Ear Plugs for Concerts: Etymotic Research

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. [...]

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HB’s DeLaO brothers dominate 2007 World Deaf Surfing Championships

The 2007 biannual World Deaf Surfing Championships went down in Miyazaki of southern Japan. A nearby typhoon generated short-interval, dumping two- to four-footers for the duration of the event, but strong onshore winds and intermittent rains made for some challenging conditions for competitors from all over the world. The next World Deaf Surfing Championships will [...]

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100% deaf-friendly porn

Got your attention? Kathryn Hill, based out of San Francisco, runs a great deaf blog called Stone Deaf Pilots–In a post from a while ago she mentions a deaf owned porn company, DeafBunny. They found a hole in the pornography industry and they aim to fill it. The movies feature deaf actors that communicate with [...]

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Wall Street Journal Article on How Cochlear Implants are Changing Deaf Education

Paul Davies, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal, wrote an article in which he argues that cochlear implants are transforming deaf eduction. He points out that cochlear implants have been around for two decades. However, it was only seven years ago (and five from when the article was written) that the U.S. Food and [...]

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