White noise (and pink and brown): The science behind the sounds
What’s your favorite bedtime jam? Do you doze off to jazz, a babbling brook, a crackling fire or a whirling fan of white noise? Or maybe you’re a sound aficionado, and have replaced your white noise machine with one that provides the more fashionable pink or brown noise?
Whatever your pleasure, know this: While continuously listening to low decibel calming sounds at night doesn’t appear to be harmful, there also isn’t much science behind how, why or even if sound machines help sleep.
“So many people are using it that the public health consequences of this are potentially ‘ginormous,’ yet right now we have little to no research on this,” said Dr. Mathias Basner, a professor in the division of sleep and chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who published a systematic review of research on noise as a sleep aid.
White noise (and pink and brown): The science behind the sounds
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This is Roger Yohemâs press card from his time at the Tribune Chronicle from 1977 to 1979.
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Once, he was caught in the middle of a deal to remove a utility pole to make room for Burt Reynolds’ luxury van during the filming of “Cannonball Run II.”
Another time, Warren native Roger Yohem mistook a call from U.S. Sen. John Glenn as a prank and hung up on the national hero.