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Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Photo credit: SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last summer I hiked in Norway with my brothers. The trip ended in the northern city of Trondheim, where on my morning walk I saw electric heavy construction equipment. I had also seen...
Photo credit: Nout Gons by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition With the headline "Honking Complaints Plunge 69% Inside Congestion Pricing Zone," The City website in New York reports on an unintended side benefit of a government intervention meant to decrease...
Photo credit: Kelly by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Atlanta News First website reports that the Decatur City Commission set universal noise levels for the city. Decatur is a small suburb of Atlanta, located about six miles from the state capital,...
Photo credit: 周 康 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The European Union Against Aircraft Nuisance announced its next webinar on March 25 at 6 p.m. Central European Time. That’s noon in New York and 9 a.m. in Los Angeles. The speaker is Thomas Münzel from...
Photo credit: nappy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Dallas Morning News recently ran an article by Christopher Elliott about travel noise. Elliott notes that travel is noisy, both in airplanes but also when staying in hotels or walking along city...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a New York Times article titled "35 Health Tips Experts Swear By," Dr. Frank Lin, Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, gave this tip: “I make...
Photo credit: fauxels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A report from Spectrum News 1 in Rochester, New York discusses how researchers at the University of Rochester* are studying how the brain cuts through noise to understand conversation. Edmund Lalor,...
Photo credit: Quiet Communities Staff by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Every day, people are affected by harmful noise from leaf blowers, vehicles with noisy mufflers, aircraft and data centers located too close to residential neighborhoods. The list...