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Image courtesy of the World Health Organization by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization sponsors World Hearing Day annually, on March 3. A theme is chosen each year. This year’s theme is, “To hear for life, listen with care.”...
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition SoundPrint’s first annual 2021 Find Your Quiet Place Challenge will be a benchmark for noise data. SoundPrinters submitted sound levels at over 2000 different venues, and nominated over 350 Quiet Places....
Photo credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition How loud is too loud? An online site for high school students, Science News for Students, says that it’s either 75 decibels or 70 decibels. The article mentions The Quiet...
Photo credit: Ken Lane licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the Cars Guide site in Australia states that 2020-2021 Chrysler 300 cars are being recalled because they are too loud. Like many countries, Australia...
Photo credit: Tina Nord from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring helped jumpstart the environmental movement in the U.S. and worldwide. Carson wrote lyrically, almost poetically, about how pesticides,...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I am familiar with occupational noise exposure criteria and noise but had never heard of noise exposure criteria for marine mammals. We know about the dangers of ocean noise for marine mammals and fishes, and have written...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m cleaning up my study and came across last summer’s issue of Acoustics Today, which had a fascinating article by Maggie Raboin, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, with the somewhat dry title...
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is hearing loss an inevitable part of aging? I came to the conclusion that it isn’t in 2017 and presented that paper at the 12th Congress of the International Commission on...
Photo credit: Cameron Casey from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise was first declared a public health hazard in 1968 by U.S. Surgeon General William Stewart at a conference entitled “Noise as a Public Health Hazard.” And, that’s the title of...