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Photo credit: Alfred GF by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition To rephrase the headline of a recent article on the SportsRush website: Why do NASCAR drivers put their earplugs in their mouths before their ears? The answer is simple. It's to lubricate the...
Photo credit: Markus Spiske by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Writer Ricardo Kaulessar starts his article in northjersey.com by reporting on how a student soccer game...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Engineering.com website reports on how one air taxi manufacturer worked to make its battery-powered electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) quiet. The Joby Aviation S4 “hexacopter”...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As reported by ABC-7 and then The New York Times, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has promised a car-free Olympics in 2028. Will this be good for Los Angeles? Is this even possible? I grew up in Newark,...
Photo credit: Azim Islam by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with my comments that individuals living with aircraft noise say that...
Photo credit: Hà Quốc Lập by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Apologies in advance for a digression into medical terminology, but it’s important for understanding the implications of this blog post’s title, which comes from a paper from Susan Hansell’s...
Photo credit: Adrien Olichon by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our blog might be familiar with the term "soundscape." But we learn in this article, published...
Photo credit: George Morina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have long thought that rational evidence-based public policies affecting human behavior lead to better health outcomes, although sometimes the evidence that these policies work is hard to...
Photo credit: Wendy Wei by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I hope that all the music-lovers who attended Lollapalooza last week brought their earplugs. Otolaryngologist Dr. Sreek Cherukuri's offered this advice in the suburban Chicago publication, the...