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Photo credit: Jo Kassis from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Discover discusses how plants can help absorb, diffuse, or block noise, especially road traffic noise. I didn’t know that noise actually makes leaves tremble,...
Photo credit: Kenan Babayiğit from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Joe Cressy, the Chair of the Board of Health in Toronto, Canada, has called for a ban on the local annual air show. Cressy, who is also the Spadina-Fort York...
Image courtesy of MIT Press by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The phrase “of sound mind” is in the New Testament, but it came to have the legal meaning of "that state of a person’s mind which is adequate to reason and comes to a judgment upon ordinary...
Photo credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Legislation signed by Governor Hochul on Friday to “increase penalties against motorists and...
Photo credit: Maryland GovPics licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have written a number of blog posts about football stadium noise, in both the professional and college game. Last weekend there were concerns that crowd noise at...
Photo credit: Sven van Bellen from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article by Tristin Hopper in Canada's National Post argues that motorcyclists are wrong when they say, “Loud pipes save lives.” I agree that aftermarket exhaust system modifications...
Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco. I was pleasantly surprised to see the electronic display screens scroll through a number of messages about free Wi-Fi, mask...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The answer to the question raised by Laura Goertzel in her article on whether quiet time...
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This poignant piece on Slate by author Ariel Henley describes how she couldn’t afford hearing aids until she got a lucrative book deal. Henley suffers from a rare genetic...