Photo credit: Manuel Geissinger by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Amazon wants to build a huge data center in Warrenton Town, Virginia, but apparently to do so Amazon...
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Are quieter drones possible?
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This tweet from MIT’s Lincoln Lab describes the development of a new type of propeller, in what mathematicians call a toroidal shape, that should be quieter than standard propellers. Drone noise...
New York City noise complaints continue to climb
Photo credit: Ed Yourdon licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That New York City continues to be noisy is underscored by the number of noise...
Scientists listen in on fish sounds
Photo credit: Hung Tran by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CTV Television Network is Canada’s largest privately owned television network. This report from the CTV website discusses worldwide research on fish sounds and a multi-national collaboration that...
Workers returning to the office ask for quiet spaces
Photo credit: Cadeau Maestro by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While researchers and individuals concerned about the impact of noise on health, well-being, and...
Hardening of the arteries associated with hearing loss
Photo credit: LadyofHats, Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, has released this image into the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An article just posted online by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reports that carotid artery atherosclerosis...
Upcoming webinar on capping flight numbers at airports
Photo credit: Tom Fisk by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Years before I was a co-author of the book “Why Noise Matters,” of which John Stewart is the lead author, I had...
Los Angeles traffic noise problem reaches Malaysia
Photo credit: Chris-Håvard Berge licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Well, the headline of this blog post is admittedly misleading. Road traffic noise can travel far, especially horns and exhaust noise from trucks and illegally...
Science is just the start
Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was contacted last Fall by Yishane Lee, the editor of Hearing Health Magazine, the well-regarded quarterly publication of Hearing Health Foundation, to see if I would write 500 words...