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Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Should noisy bars be a thing of the past? Noisy restaurants, too? My answer is an unequivocal “Yes!” That topic is considered in this online article on the UK site The Drinks Business. Reporter Louis...
Photo credit: Klaus Nielsen by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition NY Eater reports that Nettie’s House of Spaghetti in Tinton Falls, New Jersey has banned young children because of the noise and commotion they make. Restaurant noise is my personal noise...
Photo credit: Brett Sayles by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise-induced auditory damage, i.e., hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis, is an occupational hazard for musicians of all sort, from rock musicians to classical musicians and whatever music...
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We recently covered a report from Dr. Frank Lin’s research group at Johns Hopkins University describing a relationship between atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries),as measured by the...
Photo credit: Ingo Joseph by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The magazine Current Affairs just published Sophie Elliot’s article "What Noise Pollution is Doing to Us." Elliot summarizes a large body of research documenting the adverse effects of noise...
Photo Credit: Mark Paton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My recent blog attracted an email from someone affiliated with the National Council on Aging, a nonprofit agency advocating for older Americans with service providers and policy makers. She noted...
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...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This tweet from MIT’s Lincoln Lab describes the development of a new type of propeller, in what mathematicians call a toroidal shape, that should be quieter than standard propellers. Drone noise...
Photo credit: Hung Tran by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CTV Television Network is Canada’s largest privately owned television network. This report from the CTV website discusses worldwide research on fish sounds and a multi-national collaboration that...