The Winnipeg Hearing Blog is Polo Park Hearing Centre’s blog on everything to do with human hearing, hearing protection, hearing loss and general interest posts about everything from weird facts to how human hearing works. We run some regular themed blogs posts such as How Loud It It that features local venues with a sound profile worth knowing about.
In keeping with May the 4th being Star Wars Day, we wanted to share something fun without rehashing Star Wars cliches. Comment and let us know at what point in the video can you hear a famous movie theme? From the crowd’s reaction you know definitely when they “got it”! It’s an amazing bit of […]
We decided to run informal experiment to see how loud a movie theater can be and if a viewing a movie could cause temporary hearing loss. The results were surprising. Why A Movie? The greatest risk to our hearing in North America is noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). Unknowingly our leisure time activities can all
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Recently we were asked what happens to our hearing when we sleep? The answer is fairly straight forward: while we are sleeping, our ears continue to collect 100% of the sounds around us. It’s our brain that reduces the processing of sounds to a minimal level. It is because of this continuous processing of sounds
Ever wonder why “airplane food” invariably tastes bland? This clip from The Nature of Things offers us an answer: When you sit back and think about it, our brain only has so much attention to redirect to our different senses to interpret what is going on in our environment. If our hearing takes more processing
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