Photo credit: Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, a nationally recognized botanic garden, will be the first botanic garden in the nation...
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On the potential stress caused by flying cars
Photo credit: Eslivb 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 It was indeed interesting to read that Professor Susumu Hara of Nagoya University in...
Walking more or faster might prevent dementia
Photo credit: Daniel Frese by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Why am I writing about preventing dementia on a blog site dedicated to noise? Please let me explain. Dementia is common in older people, increasing with age. It is something everyone fears. And...
How to reduce aircraft noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Mohamed Anas Maaz, writing in Simple Flying, states “aircraft noise has been of the biggest concerns for...
Finding your quiet space
Photo credit: Anthony by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Finding Your Quiet Space is the title of this episode of CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD’s, podcast, Chasing Life. In it, Dr. Gupta interviews pioneering acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton...
Even New Yorkers deserve quiet in their lives
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Even New Yorkers deserve quiet in their lives. That’s certainly true, and that’s the headline for the opinion piece in the New York Daily News in late September. In the piece, Justin Zorn and Leigh...
The Quiet Coalition’s “Dear Abby” records another podcast about noise
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a previous blog post, I wrote about The Quiet Coalition’s “Dear Abby,” noise expert Arline Bronzaft, PhD, who had recorded a noise advice podcast for the Soundproofist website. Dr....
Study identifies potential therapeutic targets to prevent antibiotic-induced hearing loss
Photo credit: Chokniti Khongchum by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on the Medical News website discusses research at Indiana University aiming to find targets to prevent hearing loss caused by antibiotics. The particular antibiotic class being...
Study says BWI airport flight patterns negatively affect human health
Photo credit: Isabella Mendes by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For years now we have had studies that have linked aircraft noise to adverse health effects, including...