Stories
- Article
The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
Catalogue
- Books
Noise control in industry / co-authors R.D. Bines [and others] ; edited by J.D. Webb.
Date: [1976], ©1976- Books
Noise control in hospitals : a report of an enquiry into noise in hospital wards, together with suggestions for its control / King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.Date: 1958- Books
Noise control in hospitals : report of a follow-up enquiry / King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.Date: 1960- Books
Noise measurement and control / edited by P. Lord and F.L. Thomas.
Date: 1963- Books
Twenty years review of air pollution control in the area of the Council / Manchester Area Council for Clean Air and Noise Control.
Manchester Area Council for Clean Air and Noise Control.Date: [1976]