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Photo credit: Charlotte May by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is it bad to listen to music all the time? That is the question that Hussein, a teenager from Iraq asked the Curious Kids site, and reported on the U.S. edition of The Conversation. The...
Photo credit: Klaus by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this year, I wrote about the electrification of construction vehicles, ferries and tarmac vehicles in Norway. I didn’t think similar environmental progress would be made in the United States...
Photo credit: khairul nizam by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I was delighted to read that the Gillen Brewer School, a private school on the Upper East Side of...
Photo credit: Tara Winstead by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Data processing centers for bitcoin mines and artificial intelligence (AI) endanger both health and the environment. There has been a wealth of reporting about noise from bitcoin mines and...
Photo credit: Life Of Pix by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Like so any residents in the United States who have purchased homes in areas that they believed would be...
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop by Halimat Olunlade, Social Media Manager Some might assume that noise pollution only affects humans, but a hidden crisis is unfolding beneath the waves. Manmade noise beneath the ocean’s surface creates what experts call an “acoustic...
Photo credit: Worldspectrum by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here is yet another article that turns our attention to the noise generated by bitcoin mining facilities....
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An article in JAMA Open Network from a research group at Johns Hopkins University reports that hearing aid use among the elderly has increased, but remains low. The data were collected as...
Photo credit: John Finkelstein by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The U.K. publication Daily Mail reports that infant sound machines may be dangerous for babies’ neurological development. Parents used these machines to produce white noise to help babies...