Hearing Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Apple has released the results of a hearing health study

A couple of years ago, Apple announced a new initiative called Research, an app that collected data about health collected

What if your whole life was music and you suddenly went deaf? How would you deal with it? That’s the

As much as I love loud music, I hate that feeling the next day where your hearing is dulled and

Before the Sony Walkman came along in 1979, headphone listening was limited to when you could be wired to your

If you don’t think you need to protect your ears from overly loud music at concerts or through headphones, give

Some people are just better at hearing conversations no matter how noisy the party might be. But why? It could

Cochlear implants can allow deaf people to hear, but they can never (at least not yet) replicate what a person

Anyone who wears contact lenses knows that it’s important to let those eyeballs breath. But what about your ears? What

There’s been a strong response to a recent post about a McMaster University study that pointed towards an alarming increase

You can’t spend all day and a chunk of the night pumping high-volume audio directly into your ears via headphones

Mother Jones magazine has a great article on what music can mean to the deaf and those who have difficulty

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver