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Photo credit: Burak The Weekender by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent podcast, Gastropod asks a question we’ve wondered about, too. Why are restaurants so loud? Gastropod is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, and is supported in part by the...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This blog post is one of several about noise in Norway, based on my recent travels there. Norway, and I think more broadly Scandinavian countries, are ahead of the United States in environmental...
Photo credit: Elena Saharova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s blogs have covered subway noise in New York City and London’s Tube, both of which have been studied scientifically. Today, I want to report that quieter urban mass...
Photo credit: Burak The Weekender by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition During my recent travels in Norway, I was able to cross a fjord on an electric ferry boat. Who knew? I certainly wasn’t aware of this technology. Norway is a small country in terms of...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On my last day of a recent hiking trip in Norway, I took a walk in the old city of Trondheim before heading to the airport. There’s a stature of Leif Erickson on the fjord, to commemorate his...
Photo credit: Joey Lu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent BBC report states that traffic noise pollution harms children’s health and development. Traffic noise includes aviation noise, railroad noise and road traffic noise. Traffic noise is the...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s and Quiet Communities’ Arline Bronzaft was recently a featured guest on the American Psychological Association podcast. I read the transcript of the podcast but you can listen...
Photo credit: Peter Dutton licensed under CC By 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise pollution isn’t just annoying, it’s harmful. That’s the headline on a commentary in the Orlando Sentinel by David Vaina, PhD. We couldn’t agree more. Noise isn’t...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have previously written about the Belltown Hellcat, a car noisily raced through Seattle’s streets. Now, it’s in the news again. Television station KIRO 7 and other media outlets report that the...