Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earth.com reports that even slight traffic noise impacts work performance. That’s probably an overstatement — the study reported on by staff writer Andrei Ionesco did not actually...
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Congresswoman Meng seeks funding for ONAC
Photo credit: Thomas Altfather Good. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Anti-noise groups, especially...
How the brain decodes speech in noisy rooms
Photo credit: Maurício Mascaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Neuroscience News reported on research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology that looked into how the brain treats speech in a crowded room, depending on how easy that...
Everyday household noise can take a toll on dogs
Photo credit: Sergio Souza by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Many readers of our posts are familiar with dog barking as a noise source, though not a major one. But...
Aviation noise and emissions presentation now available
Photo credit: Allan So by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc., has announced the availability of a new presentation, Aircraft Noise and Emissions: Health and Environmental Impacts: This...
Is anyone listening? Can anyone hear me?
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When you speak in person, you know if people are paying attention to what you are saying. If you are speaking on a Zoom meeting, that isn’t as clear. And if your write an article that is...
The effect of F-35 aircraft noise on young children’s brains
Photo credit: Soly Moses by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the latest episode of Skywatch, a TV and online program that hopes to ground the F-35 training flights, Dr....
The external costs of aircraft noise
Photo credit: Sam Willis by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The European Union Against Aircraft Nuisances (UECNA) will be presenting a webinar on Thursday May 25 about the external costs of aircraft noise. To save anyone who might be interested in...
Amsterdam’s airport proposes banning night flights, private jets to cut noise
Photo credit: Shirley de Jong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I am often asked by people impacted by aircraft noise when their local...