Photo credit: Internet Archive Book Images, licensed under Flickr Commons by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I like classical music. I’ve attended concerts since I was a child, and continue to do so. In the car, I listen either to the news on NPR or to Los...
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Returning astronaut looks forward to quiet
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Spaceflight Now, among other media outlets, reported on astronaut Frank Rubio's recent return to earth after 371 days in space. That’s the longest duration space flight for an American astronaut, and...
Adults-only section on an airplane?
Photo credit: Daniel Frese by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Conde Nast Traveler reports that Corendon Airlines will launch an adults-only section on flights from Amsterdam to Curacao, for travelers age 16 and up. The purpose is to provide a quieter...
Legislators seek an update to CALM Act
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In March of 2023, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Anna Eshoo introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Modernization Act. The bicameral piece of...
Hear today, gone tomorrow
Photo credit: ALTEREDSNAPS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Hear today, gone tomorrow. That’s the catchy title of a short article in the Royal Examiner, serving Warren County in the Shenandoah Valley from Front Royal, Virginia. The article correctly...
Hanging up her headphones after 16 years
Photo credit: Grzegorz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Scottish newspaper The Courier has a wonderful piece by opinion writer Rebecca Baird describing how she is hanging up her headphones after “16 solid years of blocking out the world.” Baird...
Hospitals are noisy. They don’t have to be.
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...
‘Silence is golden,’ says Irish citizen
Photo credit: Steven Hylands by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The title of this article by Irishman Trevor Laffan is, “Both in the streets and the home…silence is...
The sound of silence
Photo credit: Dương Nhân by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I used to like listening to the Simon and Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence, and that’s a good title for this blog post about a study in the well-regarded scientific...