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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the world has seemed a little quieter. But that doesn\\u2019t mean you\\u2019re not being inundated with noise. Whether the sound is something you chose, like music or our podcast, or something outside of your control, like traffic outside or planes overhead, it\\u2019s likely that you rarely experience true silence. According to David Owen, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of \\u201cVolume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World,\\u201d all that noise is permanently changing humanity\\u2019s ability to hear.