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You don’t see the gasoline smell and lawn mower sound on a picture, do you?

Cool picture at the end of the Summer, right? Relaxing dinner. Easy food. Great joy. Unless your neighbor is in … More

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E-driving to the office reduces engine noise harassment

Recently I started to take the other company car to drive to the office. I also prefer to use this … More

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Are more planes the sign of a booming economy, or a burden for health?

There are a lot of items on the news recently, about airplanes and CO2 tax. One of the topics that … More

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Snow and Tesla – a perfect inner-city noise reduction combination

This morning, everyone in Tallinn (Estonia, Europe) was surprised. Some 25 cm of snow had covered the city over the … More

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Almost soundless plane in the making at MIT

A friend of mine posted this reference to the World Economic Forum (WEF) today on facebook. WEF wrote a great … More

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Headphones get the muse back in … and keep the noise of the gardeners out

So I went home and I was lucky. No gardeners out to there. Since I did not sleep that well … More

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Some gardener has ruined the muse that got me going this morning

Yes, again. Gardening machines are very disturbing when doing complex office work. Not for people doing manual labor. Not for … More

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“Stop the machines, or stop working for me!”

Monday, I was puzzling at the office. I needed to compile a difficult project file, many numbers, many contextual parameters. … More

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Great silent hotel in the center of Tallinn … I did not even hear the works outside

Yes, the construction machine on the picture was operational when I took the picture. But I swear that I did … More

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Vacuum cleaner and milkshake machine in hotel lobby disturb lounge feeling

This morning and this evening I used the GO Spa hotel lobby in Kuressaare (Saaremaa, Estonia, Europe) to meet and … More

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