What the beep?

by Nikki Tundel Minnesota Public Radio April 25, 2008 Listen to feature audio St. Paul, Minn. — Americans are bombarded by electronic beeps. Microwaves emit them. So do ATMs and elevators, grocery store scanners and waffle makers. Are all these high-pitched tones...

Complaints Land Baldwyn in Doghouse

by Linda Clark Lee County Courier (Tupelo, Mississippi) May 8, 2008 A Baldwyn resident won’t rest until barking dogs have been silenced. Brian Pace, who lives at 346 Clayton Street in Baldwyn with his grandfather, Dizzy Dean Johnson, recently voiced his...

Police and drivers get ready for Rumblers

by Maria Cramer The Boston Globe (www.boston.com) May 19, 2008 Din-filled times spur new device (Click here to view accompanying video) Modern technology has been hard on the old-fashioned police siren. Drivers are pumping up the volume in their cars to earth-shaking...

Sounds of the City

by Jeff Meredith Science Metropolis June 2, 2008 “America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle. It is not surprising that the sound practical sense of the American...