Sound Ledger¹ (Superman, Noise, Silence)

Audio culture by the numbers

29: The number of fighting types represented by onomatopoeia found in the comic Superman: The Doomsday Wars comic

300,000: Penalty (in $US) for noise (and dust) pollution for the owner and operator of a scrap metal facility in Massachusetts

40: Percent of surveyed travelers who reported interest “in booking a silent retreat”

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¹Footnotes: Superman: traverse.asia (Thanks, Mike Rhode!). Penalty: mass.gov. Retreat: cntraveler.com.

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