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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Oscar Ovalle by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Linda Briskin lets her readers know that she disliked noise from the time she was a child. Apparently, the...
Photo credit: Egor Kamelev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Can technology based on moth wings be adapted for human use? According to a report on Interesting Engineering, that’s the question posed by researchers in the United Kingdom and reported in...
On June 16th, Quiet Communities will host the second conference of its Quest for Quiet series entitled, Aviation Noise, Pollution, and Health: Connecting the Dots. To register, visit the conference web page. Aviation Noise, Pollution and Health: Connecting the Dots...
Photo credit: Frédéric SALEIN licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently wrote about a nighttime noise measurement just under 30 A-weighted decibels (dBA)* in the Huab Reserve in Namibia, but I can now report an even...