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What is the best noise for sleep?
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We can close our eyes and fall asleep on a sunny beach after lunch, but we cannot close our ears. Hearing evolved eons ago to help animals either find food or avoid being eaten, and we can hear even...
Kansas city creating quieter railroad crossings
Photo credit: Krivec Ales by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As someone who gets many calls regarding noise problems, I've heard from many people around the country about...
Can firearm silencers prevent hearing loss?
Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A 2020 study from the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders found that having fired 1,000 rounds or more was associated with hearing loss in American adults....
People want noise violation enforcement
Photo credit: tousif khan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This recent article in the United Kingdom's Citti Magazine revealed that 69% of the UK public wants support...
I’ve reached 100!
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’ve reached 100. No, not in years, but according to Google, my first peer-reviewed noise publication — an editorial published in 2017 — has been cited in other peer-reviewed articles 100 times. That’s...
EU auditors raise concerns over noise in European cities
Photo credit: Eugenia Sol by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies A report by the European Court of Auditors states that noise impacts have largely been ignored by the member...
Can hearing loss be funny?
Photo credit: Monica Silvestre by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I only listen to the radio when I’m in my car, and unless we’re heading to a Dodgers game, my choices are NPR on public radio station KCRW or the Los Angeles area’s classical music station,...
Noise pollution in the Arctic
Photo credit: Jean-Christophe André by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I've noticed more news articles that speak to the harmful effects that human-made noises have on...
The Golden Rule
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our colleague, pioneering noise researcher Dr. Arline Bronzaft, wrote a wonderful essay in the newsletter of the Holy Trinity Church, located in the Inwood and Washington Heights...
Why do I hear but not understand?
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Why do I hear but not understand?" That is the title of one of the references in a recent article in Scientific Reports, published by the Nature publishing group in the United Kingdom. The...
Hearing loss in children and teens
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana recently ran a story about hearing loss in children. As audiologist Brian Fligor notes, noise exposure from activities children and teens often engage in,...
Noise tops 311 complaint list, again
Photo credit: Jerome Dominici by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Both New York City residents and visitors will not be surprised to read in this article that the number...