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Rock 'n' roll is noise pollution – with ecological implications that can spread through a food web

  • Written by Brandon Barton, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
Not interested in your new favorite band.TJ Gehling, CC BY-NC-ND

Despite being one of the best-selling albums of all time, ideology from AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album has gone unchallenged for nearly 40 years. The album’s closing track posited a testable hypothesis, asserting with rock-star confidence that “Rock...

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