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Photo credit: Keira Burton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition NPR’s Life Kit site has a wonderfully simple cartoon with an accompanying soundtrack about protecting your ears to avoid hearing loss. I would broaden the title to “Avoid Auditory Damage”...
Photo credit: Rodolfo Quirós by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A press release from the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus reports on assistant professor Nathaniel Greene's research on noise-induced hearing loss. As the article points out,...
Photo credit: Jack Sparrow by John Drinkwater, JD, MBA, Co-Founder, The Quiet Coalition In a recent blog I praised Walmart for its “sensory-friendly” Saturday morning hours with dimmed lighting and no background music. Disabled, able-bodied and Walmart employees left...
Photo credit: Monstera by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kids’ earbuds? You’ve got to be kidding. Unfortunately, though, the Digital Trends site isn’t kidding when reporter Simon Cohen writes, “these kids’ earbuds let outside sounds in automatically.” ...
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, Public Domain / United States Department of Defense by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN, among other media outlets, reported at the end of August that 3M, a multinational industry and consumer good conglomerate,...
Photo credit: Momos, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Upper West Side of Manhattan registered as many as 25,000 noise complaints to 311...
Photo credit: Vidal Balielo Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post is also the title of an article on the Association of American Medical College's website by a medical student at University of California Los Angeles and a surgical...
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The pandemic, as I wrote earlier, allowed more people to focus on the pleasant environmental sounds around them....