A small group of activists got leaf blowers banned in Washington D.C

For a long time I thought the problem was all in my head. Over the years I lived by this code: I used high-performance earplugs if I needed to write or otherwise concentrate while sitting in some place that was unusually loud. I thought I was doing my part, with gear that let me attend to my work while others attended to theirs.

Source: www.theatlantic.com