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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...
Current Canada fires bring back memories of air and noise pollution research
The East River and Downtown Brooklyn as seen from Lower Manhattan on June 7, 2023. Photo credit: SnowFire. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair,...
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...
The City of Seville, Spain now requires Airbnbs to install noise meters
Photo credit: Emilio Sánchez by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Express, a British digital news site, reports that the city of Seville, Spain passed a new law requiring noise meters to be installed in all short-term rental apartments. In some...
Human-made noise is altering the sounds of the sea
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As readers of The Quiet Coalition blog know, human-made noise can adversely affect the well-being of...
Excessive noise could take years off your life
Photo credit: Owen Barker by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A New York Times reporting team, headed by Emily Baumgaertner, released three stories last week examining the non-auditory health impacts of transportation noise. In the first...
Restaurant chains, ranked quietest to loudest
Photo credit: Ksenia Chernaya by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friends at SoundPrint recently published a list of chain restaurants ranked from quietest to loudest. The analysis was based on more than 3,300 individual sound reports from...
Sweden close to being smoke-free
Photo credit: Boris Hamer by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CBS News reports that Sweden is close to becoming the world’s first smoke-free country. On May 31, World No Tobacco Day, it was reported that only 6.9% of Swedes age 15 and older were daily...