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Of course, but now to me - better is hearing silence... I always used the best quality headphones. Once I had a bad experience with headphones: suddenly the volume went up to the max!... I didn't know what to do for a few seconds... I remember this to this day. It was horrible. to my ears.

Too much sleep during the day (naps..) is not good for our health! Sleep during the night, action during the day! Yesterday I was out walking for 3 hours, and afterwards I didn't feel tired!Action, action!

Glad to HEAR that from you! But for me, this only increased my ear problems last night... Maybe I listened with too much volume, I think. How did you use this?

Me neither... and those motorcycles without mufflers, and those car owners with music sent to all... ..... and those city hall employees with those machines cutting flowers and grass every few days... uh those are really horrible. I often close my ears when I hear them all

Good testimony, thank you!

More than a billion young people may be at risk of deafness from wearing headphones at full volume or going to entertainment venues with loud music. 11/16/2022, 1:52:26 AM A scientific review estimates that 24% of adolescents who use personal audio devices and almost half of those who go to noisy spaces, such as discotheques, are at risk of losing hearing due to unsafe listening practices. About 25 decibels is a low voice conversation in a library. At 50 or 60 decibels the traffic of a noisy street sounds and, at more than 100, there is a disco or the noise of a drill. For the scientific community, any prolonged exposure to sound that exceeds 80 decibels begins to put hearing health at risk, whether in the short, medium or long term. The ear suffers and is damaged. A scientific review published in the journal British Medical Journal Global Health estimates that between 670 and 1.35 billion adolescents and young adults worldwide are at risk of hearing loss from exposure to unsafe listening practices. Specifically, 23.8% of young people who use personal audio devices at high intensity, such as loud music through headphones, and almost half of those who go to noisy entertainment venues, such as bars or nightclubs, are at risk of suffering from some type of deafness or hearing damage. Experts warn of "the urgent need" to promote safe listening habits. The damage to hearing health is influenced by the intensity of the noise and the exposure time... MORE: https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-11-16-more-than-a-billion-young-people-may-be-at-risk-of-deafness-from-wearing-headphones-at-full-volume-or-going-to-entertainment-venues-with-loud-music-.Sk7MLNh-Uo.html

Useful web-based tools you didn’t know existed and will useCarefully selected free web-based tools that I find useful without the need to download anything or having to install any App. by Xavi Esteve on July 30, 2021 (5 minute read) It seems like nowadays you need to download an app for everything you want to do, running out of space on your phone/computer and making it slower while also allowing these Apps to gather your data and spy on you. But the time where you had to fill your phone and computer with tons of Apps occupying space has passed. Current advancements in web technology allow us to do a ton of things directly from a web browser like Chrome or Firefox, without the need to download anything or having to install third-party software with escalated privileges that can access way too many information on our phone, or even have to register on an App Store with your credit card and pay for the apps. It does make me sad to see people paying money to deceiving companies earning millions of dollars for things that are available free of charge. So here’s a list of a few tools that I use daily/weekly and are free, without registration needed and without the need to download anything. If you know any other free web-based tools that you find useful and can be helpful for everyone else please share them in the comments. Web Tools here: https://xaviesteve.com/6812/web-based-tools/

"This the best rain generator fall relaxing me enough for deep sleep." White Rain - Frequency-Shaped Rain Noise Generator White Noise + Rain = White Rain Noise ? For the engineer, white noise is a signal that contains all frequencies in equal proportion, or, in other words, a signal whose spectrum is flat. For the mathematician, white noise is a signal made of uncorrelated samples, exactly like numbers output by a random number generator. Assuming that both engineers and mathematicians are right, we conclude that, when a source behaves like a random process, its sound should resemble white noise. This is exactly what happens with rain. Every drop can be considered as an independent, uncorrelated, sound source. A gentle rain, made of sparse drops, will generate a pitter-patter sound, where you will still be able to hear each drop's distinctive sound. By increasing the rate and the number of drops, a heavier rain starts behaving as a huge random process, and its sound turns white. Our white rain sound recording is totally natural: no synthetic white noise has been superimposed here. Yet, it sounds close to white noise. Not all rain sounds are white though, mostly because of the environment in which the rain falls alters the color of the sound too. Our recording has been performed in the silence of the night, in a huge space - namely the Harau Valley in Sumatra - and in the absence of any wind, as to produce the most even noise one can get. This sound offers the exact same spectrum as white noise, and can be used in the same applications in the mind, such as noise blocking or tinnitus relief. If white noise ever sounded too synthetic for your ears, give our white rain noise a try. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteRainNoiseGenerator.php?l=14222840464228211305&d=0

So good download link (with the "?dl=1" correction) is in the cmccaff1 post above. - Thank you both!

Why humans and animals rely on social touch - BBC By Jason G Goldman From monkeys to humans, grooming is an important way to win favours and earn social standing. For babies, it can also be the difference between life and death. When you run your hands through your lover’s hair, you’re probably not thinking about your place in the social hierarchy. Give your team-mate or colleague a pat on the back after a setback, and the chances are you’re not consciously seeking to change the mix of signalling chemicals in their brain. It may not seem like it, but these socially important rituals and others like them predate the time our species first walked the African savannah. Human behaviours that involve physical social contact have a lot more in common with social grooming activities we typically associate with other species than we might initially think. When rhesus monkeys or chimpanzees pick through their friends' fur, they're not just helping them remove dirt and parasites from hard to reach spots. There is undoubtedly a hygienic benefit, but this behaviour, which animal behaviour researchers call “allogrooming”, has far greater significance. The gelada baboon, for example, spends 17% of its waking hours doing this when just 1% would be sufficient to achieve good hygiene, according to one estimate. Allogrooming is the currency of what primatologist Frans de Waal calls the "marketplace of services" in chimpanzee life: it defines the social hierarchy, which in turn dictates access to food, sex, and social support. For example, one chimpanzee is more likely to share food with another that has previously groomed it. Grooming also serves to ease tensions in a chimp troop following an aggressive situation. One of the most complex forms of reconciliation among chimpanzees occurs when two rival males reach a point of stalemate, neither backing down nor escalating the aggressive interaction. Sometimes, a female breaks the deadlock and eases the tension by grooming first one male, and then the other, until the two become relaxed enough to end what amounted to an angry staring contest. According to anthropologist Robin Dunbar, this works because grooming stimulates the release of endorphins – opiates produced by the brain that trigger feelings of relaxation by lowering the heart rate, reducing overt nervous behaviours like scratching, and even bringing on sleep. Female chimps that use grooming as a peacekeeping strategy may also experience their own rush of endorphins and enjoy many of the same benefits. Humans, lacking the fur of our more hirsute evolutionary cousins, had to find a replacement for allogrooming. Like grooming, gossip establishes and maintains our place in the social hierarchy. Also like grooming, the social information that makes up gossip is itself a form of currency in human culture. Or, at least, that's the theory put forward by Dunbar. He argued, in his book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, that the faculty of language allowed our species to substitute gossip for grooming. Pleasure principle But grooming, and related forms of social physical contact, hasn't gone away entirely. While we humans don't make a habit of picking through our friends' hair for parasites – nurses searching for lice on the first day of summer camp notwithstanding – the truth is that gossip hasn't completely replaced our need for physical touch. Indeed, words don't always make adequate tools for communicating our feelings. Far more can be said by a heartfelt hug or squeeze on the shoulder after a friend suffers the loss of a relative than through words. In the same way, one's love and desire for a partner can be conveyed with a seductive stroke far more effectively than even the words "I want you" ever could. Indeed, Dunbar writes, "the physical stimulation of touch tells us more about the inner feelings of the 'groomer', and in a more direct way" than words are able. And those forms of touch stimulate within us the same endorphin release that chimpanzees enjoy during social grooming. Some scientists have even gone as far as calling the skin a "social organ". This makes good intuitive sense: we both crave touch and are repulsed by it when it is unwanted, uninvited, or inappropriate. Even simple, brief touches on a hand or arm can have tremendous effects. India Morrison and colleagues at Goteborg University, in Sweden, have presented a laundry list of such findings. Hand-on-hand touches by librarians and salespersons have, for example, been found to lead to more favourable impressions of libraries and shops. People perceive others as more attractive following even a simple, non-sexual touch, and as a result are more likely to act altruistically by returning change left in a pay phone, giving bigger tips in restaurants, or giving away a cigarette to a stranger. And yet these effects might be thought of as simple parlour tricks compared to the power that touch has between lovers, or between parents and their children. In one study, US psychologists investigated social grooming in humans by asking participants to indicate their closest emotional relationship and report behaviours such as running their fingers through the person’s hair, wiping away their tears, scratching their back and non-sexual massage. They found levels of relationship satisfaction and trust were both positively correlated with self-reported grooming frequencyamong romantic partners. And one finding hinted at a causal relationship: people who were more anxious about their relationships "groomed" their partners more often than those who felt more secure with their partners, suggesting that grooming may serve to reduce relationship-related anxiety and to promote the development of romantic bonds. The pattern was true both for men and women. Survival instinct Babies also crave touch. It has long been known among animal behaviour researchers that physical contact is critical for proper social and emotional development. When developmental psychologist Harry Harlow deprived infant rhesus monkeys of access to a monkey mother in his 1950s experiments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they became withdrawn, depressed, and anxious. They refused food, and entered into what he called a "state of emotional shock." When allowed access to a surrogate mother, the infant monkeys overwhelmingly chose the tactile sensations provided by a doll covered by terry cloth over a wire doll that provided food and water. The young monkeys preferred the comfort of even an inanimate mother's touch to physical sustenance. More recent research with rats replicates Harlow's early findings. Canadian researchers found that when infant rats were licked and groomed more by their mothers, they grew up to be relatively well adjusted. But their counterparts who were deprived of grooming often grew up, like Harlow's monkeys, to be anxious and fearful. Touch-deprived rats also had weakened immune systems. It appears as if touch helps to maintain not only social and emotional health, but also physical health. According to the World Health Organization, more than 20 million infants each year are born pre-term, which means that they weigh less than 5lb 8oz (2.5kg) upon birth. These babies have increased risk of death in the first few weeks of life. Caring for low-birth-weight infants in hospitals is expensive and requires highly skilled personnel, however research suggests a therapy called kangaroo care is both cheaper and just as effective. Originally developed in Bogota, Colombia, as a way of keeping preterm infants warm in overcrowded nurseries, the practice is deceptively simple. The mother or father simply has to repeatedly place their baby against their bare chest, ideally for prolonged periods. A meta-analysis of three randomised control trials (the gold standard in biomedical research), conducted in Colombia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Mexico found that babies born weighing 4lb 6oz (2kg) or less given kangaroo care in the first week of life were 51% less likely to die in the first four weeks after birth, compared with infants who received standard care. Other research has found that kangaroo care helps to stabilise preterm infants' vital signs, maintains adequate oxygen levels in the blood, and helps them to sleep better. It also reduces crying, increases weight gain, and allows preterm infants to spend fewer days in incubators, ultimately allowing them to be discharged from neonatal intensive care units sooner than those who are treated with conventional care. All primates, from monkey to man, rely on social touch. Among non-human primates, grooming is a tool used to garner favours, earn social standing, and increase access to resources. Gossip may have replaced parasite removal as a mechanism for defining and enhancing one's place in human society, but the desire to be touched is carved so deeply within our primate heritage that it remained even as we shed our fur. For an infant born prematurely, social touch can literally mean the difference between life and death. For the rest of us, being touched simply reminds us that we are loved. More photos on the page: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20131014-the-touching-moments-we-all-need

Lovely Animals Blog How Do Snow Monkey Protect Itself? Protection from Predators Snow monkeys spend most of their time in trees. Not only does this place them out of the reach of predators, it also protects them from the freezing temperatures found on the snow-covered ground. To help minimize the amount of time spent on the ground, Japanese macaques will often store food in cheek pouches so that they can consume them later in the safety of the trees. When on the ground, snow monkeys stay in groups of 20 or more. This allows the troop to keep an eye in all directions for approaching predators. Protection from the Cold A full layer of fur, which can be gray, brown, tan or mottled, grows thicker in the winter to allow snow monkeys to retain more body heat. Snow monkeys also sun themselves during the day to remain warm and have even been known to visit naturally occurring hot springs to escape from temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Protecting Young Snow Monkeys Adolescent snow monkeys are cared for and protected by the adults in the troop for approximately two years. This is largely the responsibility of the mother, though males will often assist by carrying or huddling with the young macaque to keep it warm. Posted by Light Happiness Blogger Here: http://lovelyanimalsblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-do-snow-monkey-protect-itself.html

Grooming Snow Monkeys for you then... Grooming Snow Monkeys/Moaan/Getty Images stevebloom.com -Jigokudani National Park, Japan zoomingjapan.com zoomingjapan.com Trey Ratcliff -Snow Monkey Spirit Animal

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Letter revealing last known movements of WWII’s most important looted artwork uncovered by STUART DOWELL - NOVEMBER 09, 2022 Said to be written by an SS officer in 1947, the letter is the first documentary evidence that Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man was transported at the end of the war from Kraków to Germany.Silesian Bridge Foundation/CC BY-SA 4.0 The mystery behind what happened to the most important painting to go missing during World War II could be a step closer to being solved after the discovery of an old letter. Said to be written by an SS officer in 1947, the letter is the first documentary evidence that Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man was transported at the end of the war from Kraków to Germany. The Silesian Bridge Foundation which is digging for WWII treasure at an old palace in Poland said they received the letter from German sources several weeks ago. ... More here: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/letter-revealing-last-known-movements-of-wwiis-most-important-looted-artwork-uncovered-34293

Hope, hope, MORE hope! Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters by STUART DOWELL Four tonnes of Nazi gold have been found in the grounds of an abandoned palace in southern Poland, say WWII treasure hunters. The group calling itself the Silesian Bridge Foundation said it had it found a buried canister using geo-radar after pinpointing the location with the help of an old SS diary. Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in diameter, the cylindrical metal canister was uncovered in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS... Here: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/treasure-hunters-say-buried-metal-canister-found-in-18th-century-palace-could-hold-four-tons-of-nazi-gold-30260

More Sociability = Better Health! Friends with microbial benefits 14-Nov-2022 By Danielle Masterson New research highlights the connections between social behavior, microbiome composition and health. Here: https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2022/11/14/friends-with-microbial-benefits - so social monkeys = good microbes... more sociability = better health!

Age-related eye disease: Promising evidence of supplements’ benefits but longer studies needed 10-Nov-2022 By Gary Scattergood The potential for antioxidants and other supplements, including lutein, zeaxanthin, saffron, bilberry and beta-carotene, to help prevent and treat age-related eye diseases has been underlined by new research from Malaysia. https://www.nutraingredients-asia.com/Article/2022/11/10/age-related-eye-disease-promising-evidence-of-supplements-benefits-but-longer-studies-needed

You know Mina that it is too late...not healthy at all! And your poor eyes! 10 PM is OK. Then you'll wake up earlier, around 8 or 9 in the morning. Try to do this, please...

Everyone has his or her time. But if you think about nuclear war? No thanks.. .Cool for you, @UCyborg!

Check your ears NOW!.. This man thought he was going deaf, but it turns out he just had an earplug stuck in his ear for FIVE YEARS! by Harriet Rigby ··Nov 15, 2022 · NottheBee.com Wallace Lee, from Dorset, UK, chalked up his increase in hearing problems to a career in aviation, but his issue turned out to be much more basic: He had an earplug lodged in one ear for five years. Lee explained what happened to the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-63599329 Five years ago when I was visiting my family in Australia I bought these little earplugs that you can put different attachments in, depending on the noise you want to phase out on an aircraft. One of these little attachments had lodged in there and it had been in there ever since. I have so many questions here. Did he not notice when it got stuck in his ear? Did he think it was going to fall out on its own? Did he forget about it? Why did it take him 5 years to do anything about it? So after 5 years of thinking he was losing his hearing in one ear, and presumably 5 years of his wife nagging him to get his hearing checked, he decided to buy a home endoscope kit. I know you were expecting me to say he finally decided to go to the ENT, but no, he's a real man, so he performed his own checkup. With the endoscope kit, he could see that there was in fact a foreign object in his ear canal, so he finally called in the professionals. Lee explained that the doctor was quickly able to remove the portion of the earplug with tweezers: Instantly I could hear everything in the room. The fog that was in my head for all those years went and left - and I could hear perfectly well. It was just such a relief... it's like hearing correctly for the first time all over again. It's almost as if taking the earplug out of your ear would unplug your ear! Here: https://notthebee.com/article/this-man-thought-he-was-going-deaf-but-it-turns-out-he-just-had-an-earplug-stuck-in-his-ear-for-five-years/

It's "a sound technology": The term “binaural” means “two sounds,” "This sophisticated recording technique uses tiny differences in frequency to generate two close tones and a third, phantom tone." - quotes from the article above...

And in plain English is...?

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VERY sad.. try to change this situation... NOT good to you, you're too young! to be satisfied with this disabled house. Would it be possible for you to live in a normal home and not for the disabled....?