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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: These twin brothers' science project found noisy public washrooms aren't just scary–they're dangerous to your health
Description: Sammy and Leo Marcus, of Winnipeg, have turned their own sensitivities to the startlingly loud automatic toilets in public washrooms, into a prize-winning science project that’s shedding a light on the plight of young kids and also people who wear hearing aids. The teens, who are 13 year old twins, measured hundreds of devices in hundreds of bathrooms across the Manitoba capitol, to document just how loud are those whirring automatic hand driers, the paper towel dispensers, the urinals and the hands-free flushing toilets.
They found that not only do these noises cause anxiety, but also often blow past th...