Belgian doctors give suicide injections to 45-year-twins who were going blind.

Marc and Eddy Verbessem, who were deaf, decided they didn't want to live anymore, and the doctors fulfilled their death wish. Euthanasia...

Quiet Santa.

For children with special needs.

"Attention is not some monolithic brain process. There are different types of attention..."

"... and they use different parts of the brain. The sudden loud noise that makes you jump activates the simplest type: the startle. A c...

Nostalgia for old sounds...

... that once exemplified newness. What are the sounds you hear now that will soon enough disappear into the history of lost sounds? We rem...

"Pink noise" — a remedy for the annoying noise of a cubicle workplace?

It's "a soft whooshing emitted over loudspeakers that sounds like a ventilation system but is specially formulated to match the fre...

The Clintonville mystery is solved.

A swarm of microquakes!

"Clintonville noises: City's equipment fails to tape mystery booms."

"The city set up audio and video recorders overnight Wednesday but didn’t capture anything. There was at least one loud boom at 5 a.m. ...

"Mysterious Booms and Trembles Plague Wisconsin Town, Baffle Scientists."

The craziness never ends in this state. “I think that right now the greatest possibility is that it is some sort of natural phenomenon. I th...

The misguided attack on Sandra Fluke continues, displaying irritating ignorance about women law students.

Robert Stacy McCain, I'm looking at you. Rush Limbaugh has apologized, but McCain bullies on : Rather belatedly, we are becoming aware t...

The first 2 chords of Beethoven's Eroica, as played over the years...

... on recordings beginning in 1924: I'm amazed at the variation. It makes me hyper-aware of how little discernment I have generally, li...

"When I read a book, I'm handling a specific object in a specific time and place."

"The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing – that's reassuring." Jonathan Franzen worries ...

"He accepted death as a side-effect of stopping the noise."

Explains the psychiatrist of Robert McIndoe, 52, who allegedly killed himself because of the tinnitus he got from a Them Crooked Vultures co...

Misophonia — "a newly recognized condition that remains little studied and poorly understood."

A newly recognized condition ... or an old irritability with a name that helps irritable people feel less irritated by their own characteris...

"A nice" or "an ice"?

Think you can hear the difference? I hope so, because I need people to hear the difference between "Ann Althouse" and "an Alt...