Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
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Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
called an ‘anechoic chamber’. If you stand in one for too long, the sound of the blood in your ears will apparently drive you insane.
“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”
Half of us are plugged into iPods, immersed in daylong concerts of our own choosing, virtually oblivious to the environment—and for those who are not plugged in, there is nonstop music, unavoidable and often of deafening intensity, in restaurants, bars, shops, and gyms. This barrage of music puts a certain strain on our exquisitely sensitive audito
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