I went to Vancouver Celebration of Light fire works and wasn’t able to hear my cell phone speaker, so I came up with a very good solution:
I’m telling you, you may look like an idiot, but it really works. Of course if you are able to keep those Eustachian canals open like I can. In my case, I can open them with simply contracting some muscles in my head. Not sure how though, but its simple.
Here’s a picture of the ear anatomy again:
I’m not sure were I got the picture from, but thanks to its provider and artist anyways.
Like I mentioned, all of us have used these canals I’m sure, even without knowing what we are actually doing.
When the environmental air pressure changes for some reason, like the air pressure in the cabin of airplanes when lifting off, this air pressure presses on the ear drums and creates discomfort.
And then, we grab our nose and keep it shut and blow in the nose to create pressure and open the canals and pop our ears. This is when the ear feels imbalanced due to difference in pressure on each side of the ear drum and opening the Eustachian tube helps equalizing the pressure on both sides of the ear drum. Don’t push too hard though, my brother hurt his ear once doing this.
Well, I guess this one was a short article, and I’m sorry about the scare! But some of you need more excitement!
Love your shows man, real wisdom with real comedy.. a classic mix… Thanks for all your hard work.
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I wanted to express appreciation to the writer for making this awesome post.
There is a lot to learn about this, but you’ve made great points.
For those of us that lack this talent of sustaining a channel between the ear canal and the eustachian tube do you know of any conventional noise dampening headphones that offer more than a measly 30dB(A) of attenuation?
Nope! Learn the talent!
Mehdi,
Can you typically hear the frequency above the standard noise we walk around in?
Great video, as always.
Been watching you for a while, really satisfied with your approach to teaching. I’m a fourth year student in a electrical engineering, and one thing that I am disappointed in (when it comes to the teaching), is the lack of design involved.
I enjoy when you make videos, you’ll include any necessary schematic. You’ll also explain why certain components are used, and what purpose they serve. It’s hard to find videos, websites and books that do this.
You should include more videos on teaching design to students like myself!
Keep up the great work!
Thanks! It will take a while to make each video, but they will get out eventually!