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Why earplugs never block all noise
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How Effective Are Ear Plugs? Regardless of how good our ear plugs are purported to be, they never seem to block out all noise in its entirety, which can be confusing as we imagine that we only "hear" through our ears. Experiments however show that part of our hearing comes from vibrations captured by the bones around our ears and throughout our head, meaning that all noise does not enter through the ear canal, which is essentially the part of the body that ear plugs block. We can literally "feel" noise as it vibrates through our heads. Because of this,...