“Paul Quassa, a member of Nunavut’s legislative assembly, told lawmakers last month the sounds are coming from the sea floor.” – Canada sends aircraft to probe mysterious ‘ping’ sounds from Arctic seabed
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“The reason we live in a culture increasingly without faith is not because science has somehow disproved the unprovable, but because the white noise of secularism has removed the very stillness in which it might endure or be reborn.” – Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
“In 2004, London adopted a comprehensive sonic strategy. The “Sounder City” initiative, outlined in this 280-page manual, was intended to fight noise pollution. It suggested improvements to everything from flight paths to utility company repairs to canal traffic. “Our soundscape needs as much care as townscape or landscape,” the report wrote.” – The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise
“noise is actually sort of delightful” – What One Little Button Reveals About The New York Times ‘Brain’
“Though “ships are the greenest of mass transport,” their noise pollution wrecks marine habitats: “A supertanker can be heard in the sea a day before its arrival,”” – A Passage from Hong Kong by Maya Jasanoff
“In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfills its various functions. When everyone who moves around the city today is dead … the sound of people’s comings and goings, following the same old patterns, will still ring out. The only new thing will be the faces.” – Karl Ove Knausgaard is Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author