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Photo credit: Steven Arenas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post comes from a recent article in the U.S. edition of the U.K. The Sun tabloid newspaper. Despite the sensationalist language, the Sun basically gets it right. It appears to...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition While I was cleaning my house recently, I came across these three no-smoking buttons from the early 1970s. I was a militant no-smoking advocate, and I wore the button on the right on my doctor’s...
Photo credit: Alex Pham by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies “Action speaks louder than words” is a phrase that has been used for many years. However, it is not one that...
Photo credit: Marina Hinic by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When the U.S. Senate passed the Federal Aviation Authority Reauthorization Bill last week, we learned that...
Photo credit: Mark Dalton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What is the safe noise exposure level to prevent noise-induced hearing loss? That’s the title of my latest article, published on April 18. I argue that this safe noise exposure level may be as...
Photo credit: Luis Quintero by Quiet Communities staff Quiet Communities is one of 12 winners of the Phase 1 Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. QC will receive $25,000 to design and plan a...
Photo credit: Yvon Gallant by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My wife and I spent the Sunday morning before the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse with our oldest grandchildren, who are in preschool and kindergarten. I asked them, “Do you know about the eclipse?”...
Photo credit: Lawrence Suzara by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Two recent news stories about restaurants in Osaka, Japan,* and close to home in Los Angeles, California, caught my eye. In Osaka, a new cafe, Shojo, opened that is an entirely silent space;...
Photo credit: Brücke-Osteuropa, licensed under CC 1.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies So good to read that the Frankfurt Airport has shown an interest in a...