Photo credit: Damir Mijailovic by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have written several blog posts over the years about fireworks frightening animals, especially dogs, but this article in Patch discusses how fireworks sounds can trigger post-traumatic...
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Dutch government limits Schiphol flights
Photo credit: Shoestring at wts wikivoyage has dedicated this image into the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Netherlands’ Schiphol Airport is one of the world’s busiest, and its environmental impacts both in terms of noise pollution...
UK noise and health webinar
Photo credit: Daniel Dudek licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise friend John Stewart has notified us of the forthcoming UK Noise Association Webinar on Noise and Health and has given us permission to help disseminate...
Prince Louis drew attention covering his ears during Jubilee
Photo credit: Torsten Reimer licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Queen Elizabeth recently celebrated 70 years as England’s monarch with four days of celebrations in London. The image from those events that might have gotten the...
The effects of noise on health
Photo credit: Loïc Manegarium by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Most people, most audiologists, and most doctors don’t know that noise has non-auditory health effects, but it does. The scientific evidence is ample and incontrovertible, and well known in...
Electric passenger aircraft promotes quieter design
Photo credit: Joby Aviation by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to Aerospace America and the manufacturer, a prototype electric passenger aircraft, the Joby S4, produced low sound levels in its own and in NASA sound measurement tests. The report...
How light and noise pollution affect animals
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This wonderful article by The Atlantic’s Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ed Yong (excerpted from a forthcoming book) discusses how animals perceive the world. The essay is too long to summarize in a...
A project to save and reimagine disappearing sounds
Photo credit: Onur Yumlu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cities and Memory is looking for participants in its new project, Obsolete Sounds, reimagining and remixing the obsolete and disappearing sounds of the world. I’m participating! I sent in...
Protecting infants’ and children’s hearing
Photo credit: Burst, released under Creative Commons Zero License by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition With coauthor Sophie Balk, we are proud to announce the publication of our latest article in The Hearing Journal on protecting infants' and children's...