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– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink

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Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep

Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep

Photo credit: Stas Knop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our posts already know that there are studies that link aircraft noise to loss of sleep, but I...

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Apple’s new AirPods Pro 2 will double as a hearing aid

Apple’s new AirPods Pro 2 will double as a hearing aid

Photo credit: Artem Podrez by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that Apple’s new Airpods Pro 2 will double as a hearing aid. The Food and Drug Administration has approved software that will allow the new generation of Airpods to be used as...

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National Protect Your Hearing Month

National Protect Your Hearing Month

Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. As I have written before, I’m ambivalent about special months or days, whether for health topics or even such favorites as Mother’s Day or...

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‘Noisy, hungry data centers’

‘Noisy, hungry data centers’

Photo credit: Field Engineer by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Sean Patrick Cooper’s New York Times opinion article is titled: “Data Centers Make Terrible Neighbors.”...

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Finally, sound advice about protecting your ears!

Finally, sound advice about protecting your ears!

Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There is a lot of bad hearing health advice in the media and online. In blog posts, I have chided those citing the industrial-strength National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health...

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A new “silent” wind turbine

A new “silent” wind turbine

Photo credit: Tom Swinnen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies My introduction to noisy windmills, yes, windmills, not wind turbines, came over 40 years ago when I was...

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“I am seeing a lot more interest and growing awareness about the adverse impacts of noise on health and I hope this will lead to policies that will be focused on noise abatement… Organizations such as Quiet Communities have made an impact on educating people to the dangers of noise and suggesting ways that we can reduce noise pollution.”

– Arline Bronzaft, PhD