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Photo credit: Bhavesh Jain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the Deccan Herald, based in Bengaluru, India (formerly known as Bangalore), discusses the rise in noise pollution as the city recovers from COVID lockdowns. Noise levels are...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition HypeBot discusses what musicians can do to protect their hearing. Ron Hart, Spotify for Artists, spoke with some musicians and also with New York-based otolaryngologist Dr. Lloyd Loft, who...
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...
Photo credit: Asurnipal licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Quieter boats, snowmobiles, and lawnmowers are coming, reports The New York Times. The TImes headline, at least in the online version, calls it the Tesla effect, but it...
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Humans, our primate ancestors, and generations of vertebrates, invertebrates, and simpler forms of life evolved in quiet. Except for a few loud noises--thunderstorms, earthquakes, waterfalls, loud animal...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Bryan Pollard, founder and president of Hyperacusis Research, Ltd., and a co-founder of The Quiet Coalition. Bryan and I served together on the board of the American...
Photo credit: sharyn morrow licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague Arline Bronzaft, PhD, wrote this wonderful essay for the Center for Hearing and Communication on the occasion of International Noise Awareness...
Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition “What is a quietway?" I wondered what it was when I saw the Quietway sign on a recent trip to London. I had to search the internet to learn that London is establishing bicycle routes on...
Photo credit: Daniel Durin by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What makes a city less noisy? Soundproofist recently discussed this after its founder visited Copenhagen. He notes that it’s really urban design that helps make a city quieter, including efforts...