There's a 140-year-old bell mounted outside the new Albany Fire Station 11. It was originally used to alert — or, to use the modern term, "tone out" — firefighters so many years ago. Now it stands as ...

The discomfort of waking from an alarm is evident: The sound jolts and jars us out of our much-needed state of restoration, the vital sleep most of us lack. However, discomfort pales in comparison to ...