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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...
Photo credit: Myburgh Roux by Elaine Miller, Founder, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Member, Quiet American Skies Thousands and thousands of planes fly over communities that have the great misfortune of living under horrendous NextGen flight paths. The “superhighways in...
Photo credit: jimmy teoh by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies An earlier blog post informed our readers that the New York City Council was going to introduce two bills that...
Photo credit: Nasirun Khan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on the Baylor Scott & White Health Newswise website has a video interview with Dominic Lucia, MD, at the McLane Children’s Medical Center. In the interview, he discusses the...
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...
Photo credit: Maria Tyutina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The statement “knowledge is power” is attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but regardless of who first had this idea, I think it is true. As a physician, I have always adhered to the principles of...
Photo credit: Airam Dato-on by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our readers may find this post unusual and interesting. The City reported last week that a couple living in...
Photo credit: Jack Sparrow by John Drinkwater, JD, MBA, Co-Founder, The Quiet Coalition In a recent blog I praised Walmart for its “sensory-friendly” Saturday morning hours with dimmed lighting and no background music. Disabled, able-bodied and Walmart employees left...
Photo credit: Monstera by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kids’ earbuds? You’ve got to be kidding. Unfortunately, though, the Digital Trends site isn’t kidding when reporter Simon Cohen writes, “these kids’ earbuds let outside sounds in automatically.” ...