I’ve been concerned about the children listening to earbuds for extended periods and getting hearing loss over time. Particularly because they are musical and enjoy music so much. The news reports are saying 1 in 5 U.S. teens has hearing loss 

An NPR article from 2007 Kids’ Use of Earbuds Worries Hearing Experts

Preventing Hearing Damage When Listening With Headphones

Not to be understated the CDC has details of how hearing loss occurs.

And the smaller the headphone the more risk of damage.

So, use headphones safely.

Take the advice of my doctor who gave me my stapedectomy that exposure is caused by regular exposure over the course of several years.

And the House Ear Clinic has started an earbud.org with very good advice.

Check out this downloadable presentation on hearing loss. Hearing (or not) is believing. And here’re further warning.

I’ve heard of these happening in the Emirates. Be careful!

ATM skimmers: man, these things are scary Boing Boing.

For some great ideas in the Holidays from Instructables

• Crafts for Christmas
• Make Christmas Ornaments

Well, at least he didn’t jump off.

Yesterday, Mister Jalopy reported a swarm of bees under the seat of one of his bikes for sale at Coco’s Variety in Los Angeles. Upon hearing the news, neighbor Amy Seidenwurm headed over to the store, donned her bee suit, and bravely herded the bees to a cardboard box, transferring them to "greener pastures where the flowers are dripping with nectar and hives are clean and commodious."

2 Wheels, 2000 Bees

 

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I was out and about and even ended up trying to take a shortcut back to the office to avoid a traffic jam and ending up going in a big circle! It is hard to keep the bearings when you can’t even tell where the sun is coming from to help your sense of direction.