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Photo credit: GEORGE DESIPRIS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft, professor emerita at City University of New York, wrote about the history of International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) on the occasion of its 29th...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I had written before about the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise adopting the new definition of noise for its use, but now it’s constitutional. What do I mean? Not the U.S. Constitution, but I was...
Photo credit: 416th Theater Engineer Command Army Reserve, licensed by PDM 1.0 DEED by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Sports Illustrated reported on Chicago Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent’s preparation for a game in the New Orleans Superdome, one of the...
Photo credit: Department of Defense by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times recently reported on brain damage to Marine and Army artillery gunners who fired M777A2 howitzers. These 35-foot-long guns are considered the military’s most...
Photo credit: Kenneth C. Zirkel licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Providence Journal reports that Mayor Brett Smiley is trying to deal with that city’s non-enforcement of its existing sound ordinance. He includes funds for...
Photo credit: SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Federal Aviation Administration's mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. I recently flew to San Francisco to visit family and the airplane...
Photo credit: Markus Winkler by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Associated Press and other media recently covered the CDC’s report that the U.S. adult cigarette smoking rate hit a new all-time low of only 11%. That’s a decrease from 42% in the...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We are merely forwarding an email from our UK noise colleague John Stewart about the Summer 2023 newsletter of the UK Noise Association. Among the items covered are the Noise Association’s James...
Photo credit: Tony Webster licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skie As the GrowNYC board member who oversees our noise activities, I receive many...