Photo credit: Kenan Babayiğit from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Joe Cressy, the Chair of the Board of Health in Toronto, Canada, has called for a ban on the local annual air show. Cressy, who is also the Spadina-Fort York...
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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 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...
It’s National Protect Your Hearing Month
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. And just in time, the adaptation of a paper published during the summer in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics with Jan Mayes was published in the October issue of The...
There is nothing temporary about temporary threshold shift
This image by AlexChirkin has been dedicated to the public domain by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This Healthy Hearing article on temporary threshold shift or muffled hearing after noise exposure varies between strong statements and caveats. I disagree with the...
GAO says FAA needs better noise impact metrics
Photo credit: Matheus Cenali from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The GAO has found that metrics employed by the FAA to assess noise impacts on residents subjected to overhead flights “does not...
Listening to loud music is bad for your brain
Photo credit: Erald Mecani licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article from LiveStrong.com lists eight habits that are bad for brain health. Number 3 is listening to loud music. The article notes: 3. Listening to Loud Music...
Are we becoming acoustic refugees?
Photo credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I sent one of my noise colleagues a draft post about the Discover article on how human noise overwhelms natural sea soundscapes for comment and correction, mentioning quiet...








