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Photo credit: Wendy Wei from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In early July of this year, Ariel Palitz, New York City’s Nightlife Director, suggested a pilot project that would permit bars, taverns...
Image courtesy of #WeThe15 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On August 19, more than 125 monuments around the world were bathed in purple light to recognize the worlds’ 1.2 billion people living with disabilities. This article from NPR states that at...
Photo credit: cottonbro from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the Netherlands, published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, found an association between tinnitus and anxiety and poor sleep quality. The association did...
Photo credit: John Kannenberg licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition I was saddened to learn this week that R. Murray Schafer, the eminent Canadian composer, writer, and acoustic...
Photo credit: Marcus Aurelius from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Does the female hormone progesterone protect the ear from noise damage? It has long been known that females have better hearing than males, beginning in the second decade of life....
Photo credit: Karol D from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist I highly recommend the Summer 2021 Entertainment issue of Hearing Health. It includes a range of articles on noise damage to hearing and how to prevent it. Music risk is a focus from school band...
Photo credit: Viktor Mogilat from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The headline in The Guardian reads “Belgian city puts brakes on deafening drivers by enforcing noise limits,” but I think the brakes are being put on the vehicles. In any event,...
Photo credit: Johannes Plenio from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on CNN Travel discusses the efforts of Quiet Parks International to preserve the last remaining quiet places on the planet. For a place to meet QPI's' selection...
Photo credit: Lauren Maurell licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Floridians who wished to file complaints against neighbors for having grass that's too tall or a noisy party or a...