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Short Stuff: Colorful Noises

14 minutes | Wednesday, 9 April 2025

We’ve all heard of white noise, that static sound the TV makes when poltergeists arrive. There are other colored noise too that mimic natural sounds like rainfall and ocean waves. What they do for us is just now being studied.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Short Stuff: Colorful Noises
Stuff You Should Know

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