Your iPod Is Making You Deaf.
I SAID... YOUR...IPOD...IS...MAKING...YOU...DEAF Having saved New Yorkers from super sized sodas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now targeting a growing problem for the iPod generation - hearing loss. The New York Post reports:
Hearing loss skyrocketed 30 percent among teens between 1988 and 2006, according to data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
An iPod at maximum volume reaches 115 decibels. Research says 85 decibels is safe.
Since taking office, Bloomberg has been turning down the volume in NYC, making noise reduction one of his "key quality-of-life initiatives". He's signed "Operation Silent Night", a law that turned up the powers of the noise code, and helps to mute construction site noise as well as the music blaring out of clubs, in efforts to "make New York quieter and more liveable."
Eardrum tip: You don't always need to listen to every song with both ears, using just one earbud and alternating ears gives your inner ear drums a break, and allows you to hear what's happening in your surroundings as well (at least you'll hear the bus coming before it flattens you).
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