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Photo credit: Darryl Kenyon licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Fox 5 DC News reports on the pickleball noise controversy. Pickleball, for those who haven’t heard of it, is not a new sport but it is one that is gaining...
Photo credit: Manuel Geissinger by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Amazon wants to build a huge data center in Warrenton Town, Virginia, but apparently to do so Amazon...
Photo credit: Ed Yourdon licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That New York City continues to be noisy is underscored by the number of noise...
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In earlier posts I have written about human-made noises not only adversely impacting the well-being of...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Science Daily describes research done in Denmark and published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America about underwater noise regulations and how noise affects seals and...
Photo credit: Darya Sannikova by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Michael Moynihan, The Irish Examiner, asks “Why is it that noisy people show no consideration for...
Photo credit: Allan Rosen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The photo above was sent to me by a friend who was visiting Charleston, South Carolina. This photo led me to...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first Earth Day took place exactly 52 years ago, April 22, 1970. The environmental movement was still in its infancy, kickstarted by Rachel Carson’s 1962 New Yorker article Silent Spring, which was published as a book...
Photo credit: cottonbro from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The UK’s Eureka magazine reports that a new device is targeting the cocktail party noise problem. What is the cocktail party noise problem? Also known as the Lombard Effect, after...