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Wishing You All A Peaceful New Year
From The Quiet Coalition Humans and our animal ancestors before us evolved in quiet, as shown by this noise map prepared by the U.S. National Park Service. Average sound levels range from 20 to 40 A-weighted decibels at most. (A-weighting reflects sounds as heard by...
The Juliana Case: Children Fight for a Cleaner (Quieter) World
Children are making the case for a cleaner (and quieter) world. QC's Legal Advisory Co-Chair, Rick Reibstein, wrote this wonderful article -- Can Our Children Trust Us with Their Future? -- for the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers group on the Juliana Case --...
It’s time to change our definition of “old”
It’s time to change our definition of “old” and start embracing transcendent design—designing thing so easy to use that everyone wants them.
Want better sleep? Bose® has you covered
Want better sleep? Introducing Bose® noise-masking sleepbuds™, the company’s first entry into the better sleep market. And surely not it’s last.
Until the world becomes a quieter place
Until your world becomes much quieter place, a little self-help is called for, and Bustle’s list of “The 7 Best Earplugs” is a great place to start!
Whether you celebrate or not
Wishing you a quiet and peaceful holiday.
Another reason to avoid fast food and chain restaurants
Another reason to avoid fast food and chain restaurants? Why eat food in a space designed to kill your tastebuds and hearing? Two reasons to eat at home.
Can a machine learn to solve our speech in noise problem?
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This piece in The Hearing Journal asks, "Can a Machine Learn to Solve our Speech in Noise Problem?" Maybe yes, maybe no. The "speech in noise" problem is the difficulty many people with hearing loss--and even people with...
How a tsunami revealed human noise pollution
Photo credit: Calbear22, photo released into the public domain Phys.org reports how a tsunami that struck Hawaii in 2011--caused by the same earthquake that hit Japan and created the tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster--caused a temporary halt to...
In the market for a quieter vacuum cleaner?
In the market for a quieter vacuum cleaner? There are options in every category, and Consumer Reports has done the heavy lifting and reviewed them all.
Gas leaf blowers’ low frequency sound explains broad impact
The broad impact of gas leaf blower noise on communities may be explained by a strong low frequency component, according to a recently published pilot study co-authored by Erica Walker, a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of...
Alarming: No end to hospital noise
In “Alarming: No end to hospital noise,” David M. Sykes tells us that hospitals continue to turn a deaf ear to alarm fatigue.