Photo credit: Internet Archive Book Images, licensed under Flickr Commons by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I like classical music. I’ve attended concerts since I was a child, and continue to do so. In the car, I listen either to the news on NPR or to Los...
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Returning astronaut looks forward to quiet
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Spaceflight Now, among other media outlets, reported on astronaut Frank Rubio's recent return to earth after 371 days in space. That’s the longest duration space flight for an American astronaut, and...
In harms way
Photo credit: Myburgh Roux by Elaine Miller, Founder, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Member, Quiet American Skies Thousands and thousands of planes fly over communities that have the great misfortune of living under horrendous NextGen flight paths. The “superhighways in...
New York City legislators propose seven noise bills
Photo credit: jimmy teoh by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies An earlier blog post informed our readers that the New York City Council was going to introduce two bills that...
Adults-only section on an airplane?
Photo credit: Daniel Frese by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Conde Nast Traveler reports that Corendon Airlines will launch an adults-only section on flights from Amsterdam to Curacao, for travelers age 16 and up. The purpose is to provide a quieter...
International Day of Sign Language
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the end of last month on Sept. 23, International Day of Sign Languages was celebrated around the world. I wasn’t aware of this special day until I received an email about it from the...
Loud noise risk for children
Photo credit: Nasirun Khan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on the Baylor Scott & White Health Newswise website has a video interview with Dominic Lucia, MD, at the McLane Children’s Medical Center. In the interview, he discusses the...
Legislators seek an update to CALM Act
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In March of 2023, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Anna Eshoo introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Modernization Act. The bicameral piece of...
The war on cars is also a war on noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I wasn’t aware that there’s a website called The War on Cars, but listening to this podcast by conservation scientist and now-author Paul Donald, I realized that the war on cars is also a war on...