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Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our colleague, pioneering noise researcher Dr. Arline Bronzaft, wrote a wonderful essay in the newsletter of the Holy Trinity Church, located in the Inwood and Washington Heights...
Photo credit: nicollazzi xiong by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A persistent myth about noise is that only affluent people value quiet, and want to ruin the fun for everyone else. When I saw the title in National Geographic, "How silence became...
Photo credit: Pavel Danilyuk by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When talking with people looking for apartments to rent or homes to buy, you often hear that they would...
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague, pioneering noise researcher Arline Bronzaft, PhD, wrote a wonderful essay in the newsletter of the Holy Trinity Church, located in the Inwood/Washington Heights...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There is a lot of bad hearing health advice in the media and online. In blog posts, I have chided those citing the industrial-strength National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health...
Photo credit: Digital Buggu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently reported on a new fabric developed by scientists both at MIT and elsewhere that can suppress sound. Here is a link to the scientific article...
Photo credit: ELEVATE by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is music in restaurants becoming too loud? No, it’s not becoming too loud. Music in restaurants has been too loud for years! But award-winning food writer Clare Finney has a wonderful essay in the...
Photo credit: Pok Rie by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Cancelling Noise" is the title of a wonderful essay in Canada’s The Globe and Mail. In the essay, Author Michael Harris describes the deleterious effects of noise pollution on humans and animals....
Photo credit: Tim Gallati. Gallati, photographed by Gordon Hempton, during a six-week backpacking trip for One Square Inch of Silence. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Jamie Banks, founder of Quiet Communities, Inc., spoke at a webinar sponsored by...