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Queenvictoria192



17 year old self-proclaimed sugar addict.
Obsessor of 80s New Wave Music, Spike Jonze movies, anything vintage, and the tv show Entourage.
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Summer Reading

*Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
*Wicked by Gregory Maguire
*Salem Falls by Jodie Piquoit
*Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
*The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
*Deception Point by Dan Brown
*A Painted House by John Grisham
*The Rainmaker by John Grisham
*Interview with A Vampire by Anne Rice
*The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
*A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Friday, June 09, 2006
"A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, 'When the age is in, the wit is out."



I've recently read a very interesting article about age and hearing limit. As you all know (or should know, rather), hearing does diminish as one gets older and inches closer to the great beyond. Using this truth, some teenagers-with nearly perfect hearing- have been using an extremely high frequency sound wave for their ringtones that only other teens (but not teachers, of course) can hear. The cut-off range for being able to hear this sound is around 25 years of age.
Of course, when I first heard this news, I was somewhat skeptical. I mean, I realize adults' hearing 'ain't what it used to be,' but I just assumed it meant they couldn't hear things as loudly, but could still hear as high frequencies as the young folk. For you, my humble readers (if there are any out there, which I tend to doubt from time to time), I present you with this mp3 file:

Noise?

Now, what do you hear? If you are much older than 25 or have a poor auditory sense, you probably just hear ambient street noises- cars, girls giggling, shuffling of feet, etc. However, for the younguns, you may hear an incredibly high-pitched, pulsating noise (that seriously makes your head throb...believe me).

Isn't that interesting? I guess I've never really considered that there was a 'cut-off' for the frequency one is able to detect. For me, my stop was at around 20,000 hz. To find your end, check out this site.


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