Baby crying on an airplane? Room too hot? Got stung by a bee? Friend is chewing food too loudly? Got soap in your eye? Do not fret! Annoyance is here to save you! http://shell.newpaltz.edu/jsec/articles/volume5/issue2/Chang_Vol5Iss2.pdf (Study about whines, cries and motherese) http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/41/14184.short (Study about what unpleasant sounds do to the brain) http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20121012/10-most-annoying-sounds (Simplified article about the above study) http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/articles/2011/08/15/why_do_we_get_so_annoyed/ (Why do we get annoyed? Contains excerpts from Psychologist Michael Cunningham about how annoyance guides us to action) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1813416/ (Pain and the Amygdala) http://www.parentingscience.com/infant-crying.html (Why do babies cry?) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9028289/Why-screaming-babies-are-so-hard-to-ignore.html (Why are screaming babies hard to ignore?) http://neurosciencefundamentals.unsw.wikispaces.net/Congenital+insensitivity+to+pain (Congenital Insensitivity to pain) http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306145,00.html (FBI uses music as a weapon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations (Using loud music for torture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package (How Noreiga was apprehended.) http://www.livescience.com/7900-crowd-control-sonic-cannon-works.html (Sonic Cannons) Creative Common images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonlooks/534226110/ - londonlooks http://www.flickr.com/photos/binusarina/3889528397/ - Creative Donkey http://www.flickr.com/photos/delicategenius/234720408/ - Delicate Genius http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/8130444037/ - Moyan Brenn http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/3576180891/ - loop_oh http://dbarchive.biosciencedbc.jp/en/bodyparts3d/download.html - Rendering of Amygdala Font by Jayvee D. Enaguas http://www.dafont.com/stanberry.font

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