“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

It was the sound of running water — not the sound of silence. That was the mundane muse behind the angelic ascension of “The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel ...

Many music aficionados simply want to escape the world, not be brought into political activism, writes a reader.

A manifesto against noise pollution. One Square Inch of Silence was published at the end of March 2009 in time for the authors, Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann, to appear at the Earth Day events in ...

What were we losing by living surrounded by noise? Or rather, what would we gain by rediscovering quiet? Source: Kathryn Archibald/Pexels. The world is a very noisy place. I don't know anyone who, at ...

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