Photo credit: Yahoo Accessibility Lab licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition MedPage Today reports on an important new paper in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery showing that cognitive function improved after cochlear...
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Noise pollution may cause forest to stop growing
Photo credit: Joel Deluxe licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Human-made noises do not discriminate-–noise harms the health of other humans as...
LEGOLAND parks becoming more autism-friendly
Photo credit: Coolcaesar licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today reports that LEGOLAND parks are becoming more autism-friendly. According to the report, by the end of March 2023, all three LEGOLAND parks in the United...
Is pickleball louder than tennis?
Photo credit: OvertAnalyzer licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have covered multiple reports of neighbor complaints about noise from pickleball courts, with many of the reports noting that when the same courts were used for...
Noise is a serious threat to marine invertebrates
Photo credit: Pascal Ingelrest by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Humans share this planet with other species, and the noise that we create is not only harmful to our...
UCHealth sees increase in young people with hearing loss
Photo credit: George Milton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition TV station KDVR in Denver reports that audiologists at UCHealth, the healthcare organization of the University of Colorado, are seeing an increase in teens and young adults with hearing loss....
Pickleball noise is driving some folks “crazy”
Photo credit: TheVillagesFL licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Yes, there is another source of noise that people are complaining...
The best kids’ headphones of 2023?
Photo credit: Polina Chistyakova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition ZDNET posted this article about the best kids’ headphones of 2023. I added the question mark because I don’t think there are any good headphones for children, certainly not children as...
An interview with Dr. Charles Liberman
Photo credit: Ecm85 licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review’s Kathryn Sutherland interviewed last year’s winner of the French La Foundation Pour l’Audition Scientific Grand Prize, Dr. M. Charles Liberman. Dr....