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Photo credit: Oscar Ovalle by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Linda Briskin lets her readers know that she disliked noise from the time she was a child. Apparently, the...
Photo credit: Sepehr Ehsani licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This press release from Boston’s Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary reports on the award of a large NIH grant to Sharon Kujawa, PhD, Charles Liberman, PhD, and...
Photo credit: Andrew Neel by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies NoiseModelling, which was begun as a research tool, has enabled researchers to develop environmental noise...
Photo credit: Craig Adderley by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this report on Spectrum NY1 cable television channel, New Yorkers suffer from excessive noise. Is anyone surprised? The “city that never sleeps” has long been one of the noisiest...
Photo credit: Mark Stebnicki by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition How loud is too loud? That’s the question asked in the Tyler Morning Telegraph in an article written by Claudann Jones from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. We city dwellers...
Photo credit: Arthur Krijgsman by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Natalie Wexler's recent article, “Elementary Classrooms Are Too Noisy for Kids to Learn,” was not...
Photo credit: J.U.L.Ö by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have written many times about the importance of noise in oceans and lakes, and its importance becomes greater at greater depths, where light penetration is greatly reduced. Animals living at these...
Photo credit: Alessio Cesario by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The London Northern Line between Camden Town and Euston stations will have work done on its tracks to...
Photo credit: Mike Mozart licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that Mattel’s Barbie division unveiled its first-ever doll with hearing aids. As Mattel’s Global Head of Barbie Dolls Lisa McKnight said, the dolls will help...