Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Many people consider Sunday a quiet day, but there are generally no laws to support this ... until now!...
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Tim Gallati and the Quiet Links Library
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...
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...
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...
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...
The quietest place I have ever been
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...
Quiet testimony: A visit to the Vietnam Memorial
Photo credit: Steven Zucker, Smarthistory co-founder licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition Hearing is so primal, so instinctive, you're often unconscious of sounds around you. Until they’re gone. A monument whose deep...
On being silent in a noisy world
Gal Beckerman in “The Case for Covering Your Ears,” writes about the importance of being silent and of hearing silence in a noisy world.
The sound of winter
The sound of winter is starkly different in rural Maine than Manhattan. Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on the difference and her appreciation of the sound of nothing at all.