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Musicians need to protect their hearing
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This article in Hypebot is yet another that asserts 85 decibels (dB) as point at which a noise level poses risk to musicians. It's true that music-induced hearing loss is permanent, painless, and preventable, but here are some...
Nature’s sounds improve well-being
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies During the early months of the COVID-19 shutdown, urban residents noted that with less aircraft traffic overhead and fewer cars on the...
Noise is bad for narwhals
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The narwhal is a remarkable animal, a small whale with a single tusk, which is actually a hypertrophied tooth that can grow to ten feet long. Unlike the unicorn, the narwhal is real. As...
SoundPrint’s Find Your Quiet Place Challenge
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist SoundPrint is hosting the October 2021 Find Your Quiet Place Challenge. This popular app lets users collect and submit sound levels from venues like restaurants, bars, and cafes. The SoundPrint app database helps people find quiet...
The frightening link between traffic noise and dementia
Photo credit: Aayush Srivastava from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The literature linking noise to adverse health effects has grown stronger these last few...
Nature is quiet
Photo credit: Michelle Cipriano licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The National Park Service noise maps show that without anthropogenic sounds--that is, human influenced sounds--nature is quiet. The top map shows existing...
Becoming attuned to the city soundscape
Photo credit: Daria Shevtsova from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg, like many other writers this past year and a half, has become more in tune to the sounds around...
It’s National Protect Your Hearing Month
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. And just in time, the adaptation of a paper published during the summer in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics with Jan Mayes was published in the October issue of The...
Pre-emption of State Small Engine Regulation under the Clean Air Act
Rick Reibstein provides some context for thinking about the issue of pre-emption of state small engine regulation under the Clean Air Act.
The Right to Quiet: The Once and Future Recognition that the Right Exists
The persistence of noise in our lives and the failure of the federal government to match that persistence with preventive efforts may make some question whether there is such a thing as a right to quiet. Rick Reibstein’s paper discusses ways of thinking about the right to quiet.
City officials in Milton Keynes, UK demand noisy fireworks ban
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Milton Keynes is a small city about 50 miles north of London with a population of 230,000 in its urban area. As reported in The MKCitizen, city officials will be introducing legislation to ban noisy fireworks. The reason?...
NYC councilman introduces noise camera bill
Photo credit: New York City Department of Transportation licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In an earlier blog I wrote about the New York State Legislature considering a bill to...