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Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Washington Post published a wonderful interactive online article with restaurant sound levels. This is the Post’s second article about restaurant noise that I know about, although there may have...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition While I was cleaning my house recently, I came across these three no-smoking buttons from the early 1970s. I was a militant no-smoking advocate, and I wore the button on the right on my doctor’s...
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hub, the online news site of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, reported that engineering students developed a prototype of a noise-canceling device for patients having dental work done....
Photo credit: Ono Kosuki by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this month, the Mayo Clinic Health System addressed the dangers of earbud and headphone use by young people. My only quibble with the article is that it states that “any sound at or above...
Photo credit: Rachel Claire by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Hear here! I know a good line when I steal one, but I always give credit. I took this line from The University of Alabama’s Hear Here Alabama Project, which I recently found online. Here’s the...
Photo credit: Egor Kamelev by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The headline of this article in Deseret News is: “Concerned citizens call South Carolina police over noisy…”...
Photo credit: Yvon Gallant by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My wife and I spent the Sunday morning before the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse with our oldest grandchildren, who are in preschool and kindergarten. I asked them, “Do you know about the eclipse?”...
Photo credit: Brücke-Osteuropa, licensed under CC 1.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies So good to read that the Frankfurt Airport has shown an interest in a...
Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A Tik-Tok famous general practitioner in Singapore is advising concertgoers to wear earplugs and use sunscreen. I don’t follow social media at all, but I’m glad to know that there’s useful...