Silences And Sounds

An auditory distraction — a crying baby, a ringing phone — hits like a punch to the gut, instantly demanding our attention. But recent stud...

Sea Lions of the Georgia Aquarium, April 2025 Pinnae, the externally-located parts of the sea mammal’s ear, are parallel to auricles in h...

  Image of James Henry, poet of Menippea (1866) Henry, James. “It is just in Heaven to favor so the eyes.” [Poem written while walking fro...

Earlids of the early 1900s (with image of an ear) The question of earlids being on my mind, and the airport being boring so boring, I decid...

Image of a crocodile in lights from ZooLights at Lincoln Park Zoo Earlids, or rather their absence, are a common trope of Soundscape liter...