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Photo credit: Lindsey Flynn by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There are a lot of noise problems in the world, like noise at sports events and rock concerts, transportation noise from vehicles, trains and aircraft, occupational noise exposure and now,...
Photo credit: Kendall Hoopes by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition NPR Shots, the news organization's landing page for health stories, recently reported that the New Orleans Treme neighborhood is confronting what reporter Drew Hawkins calls a "racist legacy"...
Photo credit: Yan Krukau by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This fascinating report on The Conversation website by two researchers at the University of Washington discusses their recent research that studies how blind people process the sound of movement....
Photo credit: Ivan Oboleninov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recently-published editorial, Mathias Basner, one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of noise on sleep, discusses how noise disrupting sleep leads to long-term health...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition US News and World Report correctly informs readers that noisy holiday toys are no gift to a child’s hearing. Reporter Dennis Thompson covers a news release from the American Academy of...
Photo credit: Artem Podrez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over 40 years ago, I conducted two studies that examined the impacts of train noise on children’s reading...
Photo credit: Agung Pandit Wiguna by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times offers teachers free lesson planning information on its site, The Learning Network. The site offers resources, strategies and ideas for teaching. On Dec. 11, reporter...
Photo credit: Alex Azabache by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The New York City Council has introduced four new policies, under the Stop the Noise Act, to address the...
Photo credit: Mikhail Nilov Quiet Communities wishes you a quiet and peaceful new year.