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– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink
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Traffic noise induces “road rage” in birds
Photo credit: melikeobscura by Halimat Olunlade, Social Media Manager Noise impacts all forms of life, even in the world's most remote areas. The Galapagos Islands, which once inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, are now helping us understand the effects of...
NPR gets it dead wrong about the sounds of March Madness
Photo credit: Bk Aguilar by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big fan of NPR, listening to "Morning Edition" or "All Things Considered" when I'm in the car and those programs are on. I missed this report about March Madness noise for babies, but my...
Paris goes pedestrian
Photo credit: Kadir Avşar by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I've written many times on this blog, I am a big fan of NPR. I heard this wonderful report about Paris going pedestrian the other day while running an errand in my hybrid electric vehicle....
Risk of air pollution is greater than previously thought
Photo credit: Marcin Jozwiak by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study published online ahead of print in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Health Perspectives reports that new research shows that the cumulative risk of...
Intensive care units are too noisy
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Scientific Reports, a publication within the UK-based science journal Nature, put out an article about sound in the intensive care unit. I wasn’t surprised to learn that the ICU the researchers...
Tell me about noise pollution
Photo credit: James Cheney by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Florida Museum is currently closed for renovation, but it posted content online from the Thompson Earth Systems Institute at the University of Florida about noise pollution. The Institute...
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“I am seeing a lot more interest and growing awareness about the adverse impacts of noise on health and I hope this will lead to policies that will be focused on noise abatement… Organizations such as Quiet Communities have made an impact on educating people to the dangers of noise and suggesting ways that we can reduce noise pollution.”
– Arline Bronzaft, PhD