Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This poignant piece on Slate by author Ariel Henley describes how she couldn’t afford hearing aids until she got a lucrative book deal. Henley suffers from a rare genetic...
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The subway shouldn’t be “ear-splittingly loud”
Photo credit: Tommi Komulainen 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 Rory Bennett took a decibel meter into the London subway and learned that...
California set to become first state to ban gasoline-powered lawn equipment
Photo credit: Andres Siimon licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed a measure on Saturday requiring new small off-road engines to be zero-emission by 2024. The bill includes $30 million in financing to assist with the transition....
October is National Protect Your Hearing Month
Image courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month and our friends at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health...
Musicians need to protect their hearing
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This article in Hypebot is yet another that asserts 85 decibels (dB) as point at which a noise level poses risk to musicians. It's true that music-induced hearing loss is permanent, painless, and preventable, but here are some...
Nature’s sounds improve well-being
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies During the early months of the COVID-19 shutdown, urban residents noted that with less aircraft traffic overhead and fewer cars on the...
Noise is bad for narwhals
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The narwhal is a remarkable animal, a small whale with a single tusk, which is actually a hypertrophied tooth that can grow to ten feet long. Unlike the unicorn, the narwhal is real. As...
Nature is quiet
Photo credit: Michelle Cipriano licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The National Park Service noise maps show that without anthropogenic sounds--that is, human influenced sounds--nature is quiet. The top map shows existing...
Becoming attuned to the city soundscape
Photo credit: Daria Shevtsova from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg, like many other writers this past year and a half, has become more in tune to the sounds around...