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One month until World Hearing Day
Image courtesy of the World Health Organization by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization sponsors World Hearing Day annually, on March 3. A theme is chosen each year. This year’s theme is, “To hear for life, listen with care.”...
Tinnitus wearable offers bimodal therapy
Photo credit: Ixocactus licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition A California-based tech company, led by Stanford neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, has introduced a wearable bimodal therapy approach for tinnitus that...
Hospital noise adversely affects staff
Photo credit: This photo by Navy Medicine is in the public domain by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That hospital noise is a problem for both patients and health care...
SoundPrint noise data benchmark
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition SoundPrint’s first annual 2021 Find Your Quiet Place Challenge will be a benchmark for noise data. SoundPrinters submitted sound levels at over 2000 different venues, and nominated over 350 Quiet Places....
How loud is too loud?
Photo credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition How loud is too loud? An online site for high school students, Science News for Students, says that it’s either 75 decibels or 70 decibels. The article mentions The Quiet...
“Sex and the City” tackles noisy neighbors
Photo credit: Ed Yourdon 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 Over the years there have been some books, television shows and movies that...
Noisy Chrysler cars recalled in Australia
Photo credit: Ken Lane licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the Cars Guide site in Australia states that 2020-2021 Chrysler 300 cars are being recalled because they are too loud. Like many countries, Australia...
Utah legislator wants to cut down noise pollution
Photo credit: ND-Photo.nl licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Jamie McGriff, KUTV, reports that a Utah legislator wants to cut down noise...
Another silent spring?
Photo credit: Tina Nord from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring helped jumpstart the environmental movement in the U.S. and worldwide. Carson wrote lyrically, almost poetically, about how pesticides,...
Noise criteria for marine mammals?
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I am familiar with occupational noise exposure criteria and noise but had never heard of noise exposure criteria for marine mammals. We know about the dangers of ocean noise for marine mammals and fishes, and have written...
The fight to save quiet places
Photo credit: Brett Jordan from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Alan Moshakis, The Guardian, introduces the readers to Hampstead Heath by describing it as one...
Noise bugs bugs
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m cleaning up my study and came across last summer’s issue of Acoustics Today, which had a fascinating article by Maggie Raboin, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, with the somewhat dry title...