Short Films. Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England in Since he has been a full-time writer, publishing 15 books, translated into 23 languages, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. He has also written the introductions to more than 70 other books, as well as liner and program notes, a screenplay for Miramax and a libretto. His four talks for TED have received more than 10 million views so far.
Since Iyer has spent much of his time at a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California, and most of the rest in suburban Japan. All the photos on this site, other than the portraits on the Welcome page and above, are taken by Pico Iyer. In our fluid new century, many places are parts of other places, and all of us are a part of others.
Ultimately, Inner World and Outer World may not be so different, either. If you want to find original, non-syndicated Pico Iyer articles, some of the places where they appear regularly or have appeared in the past include:. Click on each category to view more ». United States. Information is updated continuously. This ArcGIS feature service shows airline restrictions information.
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Ryan James L. Moore Congratulations on your 8th anniversary! Of why it is important to reach out beyond our own personal space, reach out beyond our borders, reach out beyond our cultural expectations.
Mary I can say that travelling is like getting into new reality, even if you travel to the same place it is always something new there.
This essay inspires to expand new horizonts! Kelly Harmon hiptraveler Nina I love this article By Pico Iyer. Thank you World Hum for republishing it. So beautifully written. Heather Bosely Thank you for republishing this article!
What a joy to read and hear expressed so clearly the wonders of travel to be experienced by really seeing. Boomergirl Raghuvir WhiteApple Well, if a person is too fond of travelling, in my humble opinion it means that they are infantile, this is a direct evidence of the immaturity of thinking, selfishness, irresponsibility if you wish, though in the best meaning of those qualities. Most people travel to escape their daily lives. Unfortunately, when they come back to reality, their problems, family, friends, and issues they face are still there.
Travel to enjoy it, meet new people, get rid of your baggage, learn about culture and history, and enjoy yourself. Read entire travel blog ». Send it to:. JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address. See all destinations ». However, they all hear it at different times of day, and at varying intensities. There have been others in Kokomo , Indiana, in Denmark, and more recently there was a hum in Windsor , Ontario Canada.
That hum stopped after a nearby steel mill was closed. Maybe there's this huge problem. Maybe this is driving people to insanity. I wanted to speak with an expert, to help me wrap my mind around all of this, and Alex turned out to be the perfect person.
He loves acoustical mysteries. Occasionally, however, he gets the chance to investigate a mystery hum like what Dale Tutaj and Nelson Saarni are experiencing. So I jumped in the car around midnight, drove down south, took some measurements, and there it was. So he takes his microphone and he follows the sound.
He does that for two or three hours, and eventually tracks the source of the hum to a kitchen exhaust fan. One thing I noticed with almost everyone I spoke with, and the reports I read online: the hum is quiet, and heard indoors, but not outdoors. It seems to be able to travel a long way despite being undetectable outside. What I learned from Alex is that this has to do with the physics of sound.
Sound is made up of waves that travel through the air. Imagine you drop something into a bathtub, and you see ripples bounce back and forth. A high-pitch or high-frequency sound would be like dropping a stone into the tub, you get little ripples.
A low-pitch or low-frequency sound would be like dropping a bowling bowl into the tub, you get a big wave. The small ripples get stopped by the edge of the tub. The bigger wave— that could slosh right over.
This creates a filtering effect which is why these low-frequency hums are only heard indoors. In both of the cases Alex told me about where he successfully chased down one of these low-frequency hums, it was coming from an exhaust fan. At first this got me excited! Until Alex confirms what Nelson suspected, which is that this type of sound can be generated by any number of things.
It never goes away. Picking sounds out of this sonic soup can be difficult; it can take a team of acoustical engineers like Alex days, sometimes weeks, to locate the source of a hum. This can easily cost thousands of dollars. And so whether he can talk to them and get the report that I did is a different story.
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