Airbag Hearing Loss Prevention

Safe The American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that air bags saved 8,369 lives between 1987 and 2001. Unfortunately, the same technology is having a negative impact on hearing. Seventeen percent of car occupants adjacent to airbag deployments suffer hearing loss, according to a study by Richard Price, a hearing specialist and consultant. And sound To…

Amazon’s Turbulent Beginnings

Amazon is a dominant player now, but its birth was plagued with doubt and financial weakness, reveals the book The Everything Store by Brad Stone. Amazon started as an online book seller, and this was a canny move by Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder.  Books were true commodities – all the same, no question of whether…