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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...
Photo credit: Polina Tankilevitch by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first line of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night" is: “If music be the food of love, play on.” That may be true, but we recommend that lovers find a quiet restaurant to have a Valentine’s...
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from an Oklahoma television station emphasizes that excessive noise exposure that causes hearing loss and tinnitus is a serious problem in that state. But it’s actually a...
Photo credit: Max Bender by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Chrissy Sexton, Earth.com, calls our attention to a comprehensive study that links urban noise pollution to...
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition ABC 7 news in Los Angeles recently covered the topic of hidden hearing loss. I was thrilled to see this, as most members of the public, even many primary care physicians, don’t know about...
Photo credit: Christopher Eliot by Christopher Eliot Protesters organized by Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere held a peaceful gathering outside the Massachusetts State House on Oct. 2. Sen. Michael Barrett gave an overview of the attempts to stop the...
Photo credit: Grzegorz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Scottish newspaper The Courier has a wonderful piece by opinion writer Rebecca Baird describing how she is hanging up her headphones after “16 solid years of blocking out the world.” Baird...