Photo credit: TheVillagesFL licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Yes, there is another source of noise that people are complaining...
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A Virginia community deals with pickleball noise
Photo credit: Darryl Kenyon licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Fox 5 DC News reports on the pickleball noise controversy. Pickleball, for those who haven’t heard of it, is not a new sport but it is one that is gaining...
There should be silent options when waiting on hold
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s John Drinkwater wrote a well-researched, thoughtful article for the January 2023 issue of The Hearing Journal advocating for silent options when waiting on hold. As...
A quiet urban hotel
Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My wife and I went to Palm Springs, California for a wedding recently. My wife knows that noise bothers me, so she requested a quiet room. She told me the...
Finding your quiet space
Photo credit: Anthony by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Finding Your Quiet Space is the title of this episode of CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD’s, podcast, Chasing Life. In it, Dr. Gupta interviews pioneering acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton...
How listening to silence changes our brains
Photo credit: S Migaj by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in Time magazine by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz, authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, discusses the dangers of noise, the fact that the world has indeed gotten...
Quiet zones and quiet rail cars
Photo credit: Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On a recent trip to Norway, we took the train from the airport to the main train station in Oslo. There was a quiet car with silence requested in that car. More notably, the sound pressure...
Taiwan unveils world’s first “certified quiet trail”
Photo credit: Hayden Liu licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have hiked in the Alps many times and have recorded ambient sound levels just above 40 dBA* on the trail. Invariably one hears a distant jet plane, or the...
The power of silence in a deafening world
Photo credit: elifskies by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This thoughtful essay on Vox , excerpted from a book by Justin Zorn and Leigh Merz, discusses the power of silence in a deafening world. Real noise, and informational noise, disturb us and make it...