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Photo credit: Hasan Gulec from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Will future cars have individual sound zones for each passenger? Scientists are exploring an algorithm that would let each passenger listen to their own audio without...
Photo credit: Kindel Media from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ Wirecutter provides sound advice about protecting your hearing, citing updated information from the CDC about safe noise levels. As the Times’ resident noise...
Photo by Daniel Fink, MD by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Economists say that an informed consumer is a better consumer although it turns out that most consumers do a bad job of making what would appear to be rational decisions. A whole new field,...
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As those who follow this blog may remember, when I’m not writing about noise issues I’m working as a home handyman fixing things. Ah, the joys of home ownership. On this week’s journey to a...
Photo courtesy of Eviation by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that Alice, the world’s first all-electric passenger airplane, went through engine testing and may be making test flights in a few weeks. Electric airplanes are the holy grail of...
Photo credit: Ken Lane licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the Cars Guide site in Australia states that 2020-2021 Chrysler 300 cars are being recalled because they are too loud. Like many countries, Australia...
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I am an inveterate DIYer, maintaining two houses and assisting in keeping two others in good repair, so I have a lot of tools and am always looking for better ones. My father taught me that...
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: fauxels from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Helen Hodgetts and Nick Perham in their article on returning to the workplace cite a poll taken in 2020 that found most workers want to...