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Photo credit: Adrien Olichon by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our blog might be familiar with the term "soundscape." But we learn in this article, published...
Photo credit: George Morina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have long thought that rational evidence-based public policies affecting human behavior lead to better health outcomes, although sometimes the evidence that these policies work is hard to...
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When I speak to people in cities across the United States about their local noise by-laws, their major...
Photo credit: Juan Pablo Serrano by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to the RNZ website, published by Radio New Zealand, daily harmful noise exposure affects thousands. But I think they’re wrong, and the actual number is likely millions, tens of...
Photo credit: Javier Gonzalez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Taking a stroll through the city center of Leipzig, David Zipper tells us in this Bloomberg article how...
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review recently reported on research done at the University of Maryland showing that a region of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex plays an important role in hearing and learning....
Photo credit: Dominika Gregušová by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Guardian and other media outlets recently reported that London’s efforts to reduce air pollution by establishing an Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) were successful. Here is the Greater...
Photo credit: Ingo Joseph by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While the German government is committed to making the country climate-neutral by 2045, we learn in this...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Science Daily recently reported on research done at George Washington University’s Milken School of Public Health. Using data from the European Space Agency, the researchers found that the road...