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Photo credit: by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies
Office noise is a major deterrent for employees
Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Facilities Management Journal website, published out of the United Kingdom, reports that noise is a major deterrent for those returning to in-office work after working from home for a...
Noisy cicadas are coming
Photo credit: Egor Kamelev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today among other news outlets reported that noisy cicadas are coming to 13 states soon. Cicadas are insects with an interesting survival strategy. They hibernate for several years, then all...
The Noisy Planet website retired
Photo credit: Trinity Kubassek by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The website for Noisy Planet, a national public education campaign focused on preventing noise-induced hearing loss in children, retired as of May 1, 2025. The text and illustrations on the...
Taking a short break
Photo credit: AS Photography as Pexels We are taking a break this week. See you on Monday, May 5.
International Noise Awareness Day
Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced...
Environmental noise affects the brain
Photo credit: Krizjohn Rosales by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound. It has been known for some years that noise has adverse auditory and non-auditory health effects. These non-auditory adverse effects have been best...
Is it OK to shush people in public?
Photo credit: Clément Proust by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ student-oriented publication on The Learning Network, offered by The Times to teachers and students, asks, “Is it OK to shush people who are noisy in public?" The subhead...
It’s Earth Day
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition April 22 is Earth Day. I didn’t know there was an actual Earth Day organization, or that there was a theme for each Earth Day. This year’s theme is: “Our Power, Our Planet," calling for...
Tapping one’s fingers in a noisy room?
Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website reported on research suggesting that tapping one’s fingers in a steady rhythm could help one better understand speech in a noisy environment. In the respected...
New Jersey residents fight jet noise
Photo credit: NAUSHIL | SKYHAWK. ASIA by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Pascack Press reported that residents of the small township of Washington, New Jersey continue to speak out against “the persistent jet noise that plagues the Pascack Valley."...
Paris said ‘au revoir’ to cars. Air pollution was reduced
Photo credit: Elina Sazonova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently wrote about Paris closing more than 500 streets to vehicular traffic in order to reduce transportation noise. The Washington Post just reported that a beneficial side effect of...