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We recently asked you, dear listeners, to call us with your noise complaints, and whew, did you have them. We received over 100 messages about the sounds you detest the most: leaf blowers, your ...

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The term "noise pollution" refers to unwanted or annoying sounds that happen around you. Machinery, amplified music, noisy vehicles, and other things can cause it. If it's loud or long-lasting, noise ...

The sound of someone sniffling can be irritating, but that has almost nothing to do with the sound itself, new Carnegie Mellon University research shows. “It’s not the sound, it’s how I feel about the ...