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...Trust us, your hearing will thank you for it. While many music lovers are aware that listening to iPods and MP3 players at high volumes can lead to hearing loss, not many of them - especially not teens - do anything about it. In fact, when teens are pressured by friends or family to turn down the volume on their iPods, they do exactly what you'd expect them to do: they turn the volume up instead. Even teens who express concern about the risk of hearing loss listen to music at potentially dangerous levels - higher on average than kids...
...would anyone ever listen to an iPod at maximum volume? Again, it's a simple misunderstanding of risk. Portnuff speculates that teens who say they worry about hearing loss but still listen to their iPods at high volumes probably assume that the manufacturer's maximum default setting is safe, or that turning the volume down to anything but full-blast is harmless. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Portnuff acknowledges that most iPod and MP3 users don't keep their devices at maximum volume - only about 7% to 24% listen at risky levels. But because most of us can, and are, spending more time listening to music through headphones, there is a real risk of hearing loss for anyone who plugs in. "It's a matter of how high you listen and for how long," he says. Listen for too high and too long, and you may have to replace those headphones with hearing aids in the not-too-distant future...
...Deschanel returns as a guest vocalist on this album’s second track, “Never Had Nobody Like You.” While she provides a dainty counterpoint to M. Ward’s forceful vocal performance, what really stands out is the songwriting. At first listen, “Never Had Nobody Like You” sounds like a simple upbeat pop ditty. With closer attention, however, the incorporation of disparate musical styles emerges. The instances are subtle: the bluesy snare drum break that gives momentum to the transition from chorus to verse, the folksy vocal...
...meeting with Harper went from a scheduled 10 minutes to 30 - a sign that the two baby boomers have much in common. Harper, 49, has a two young children and is known to listen to Aussie hard rockers AC/DC...