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Photo credit: Jaybird licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report in Nature Aging is behind a paywall, so I am using this article about the report in Neuroscience News to discuss it. The study showed that short term...
Photo credit: Pok Rie from Pexels by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Drone delivery” is here and coming to your yard soon—and the revolution will not be quiet. These excellent and sobering notes by Eddie Duncan about the International Institute of...
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition Here’s some real buzz from NASA: they’ve launched a robotic helicopter on Mars. The old Zen koan needs a re-write: "What is the sound of one hand...
Photo credit: Scott Teresi licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition received this announcement about a new film, "Jet Line: Voicemails From the Flight Path," premiering on April 15. This 12-minute documentary film...
Photo credit: Jess Vide from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A while back, I reported on legislation introduced by the New York City Council to amend the city's administrative code to reduce noise...
Photo credit: Florian Pircher from Pixabay by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a word: no—they can’t hear you because they make too much noise. So a New Zealand company is developing algorithms to cancel the noise drone helicopters make so that their...
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In responding to an Federal Aviation Administration's study that found airplanes and helicopters are “far more annoying than other sources” of noise, Congressman Thomas...
Photo credit: NASA's Langley Research Center by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on NewAtlas discusses NASA research on a quiet airplane wing. The research uses a wind tunnel and a model airplane to determine the effects of new designs on noise....
Photo credit: frank longwill licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last month, we published a notice about the week-long conference hosted by the University of California Davis, the Aviation Noise & Emissions Virtual...