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The quietest place I have ever been
Photo credit: Frédéric SALEIN licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently wrote about a nighttime noise measurement just under 30 A-weighted decibels (dBA)* in the Huab Reserve in Namibia, but I can now report an even...
Quieter boats, snowmobiles, and more coming
Photo credit: Asurnipal licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Quieter boats, snowmobiles, and lawnmowers are coming, reports The New York Times. The TImes headline, at least in the online version, calls it the Tesla effect, but it...
Design firm creates PinDrop room to help make spaces quieter
Photo credit: hugovk licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Ronda Kaysen, who writes the "Ask Real Estate" column for the New York Times, where...
Memorial Day
Photo credit: Bella White Wishing you a quiet and peaceful Memorial Day.
Nature is still quiet
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Humans, our primate ancestors, and generations of vertebrates, invertebrates, and simpler forms of life evolved in quiet. Except for a few loud noises--thunderstorms, earthquakes, waterfalls, loud animal...
Enforcement of noise legislation is key
Photo credit: Markus Spiske by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The New York City Council is taking additional action to limit the excessive noise from the loud motor...
In memory of Bryan Pollard, founder, Hyperacusis Research, Ltd.
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Bryan Pollard, founder and president of Hyperacusis Research, Ltd., and a co-founder of The Quiet Coalition. Bryan and I served together on the board of the American...
With noise, enforcement is the key
Photo credit: Allan Rosen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The photo above was sent to me by a friend who was visiting Charleston, South Carolina. This photo led me to...
Children and noise
Photo credit: sharyn morrow licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague Arline Bronzaft, PhD, wrote this wonderful essay for the Center for Hearing and Communication on the occasion of International Noise Awareness...
What Is a quietway?
Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition “What is a quietway?" I wondered what it was when I saw the Quietway sign on a recent trip to London. I had to search the internet to learn that London is establishing bicycle routes on...
California may launch a noise camera pilot program
Photo credit: Ignacio Palés by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies With cities like New York, Paris, and London setting up pilot programs to use noise cameras to identify...
What makes a city less noisy?
Photo credit: Daniel Durin by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What makes a city less noisy? Soundproofist recently discussed this after its founder visited Copenhagen. He notes that it’s really urban design that helps make a city quieter, including efforts...