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Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Facilities Management Journal website, published out of the United Kingdom, reports that noise is a major deterrent for those returning to in-office work after working from home for a few years during and after the COVID pandemic. A survey of 2,000 business professionals done by an acoustics consulting firm found…
Photo credit: Egor Kamelev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today among other news outlets reported that noisy cicadas are coming to 13 states soon. Cicadas are insects with an interesting survival strategy. They hibernate for several years, then all hatch at the same time over a several day period — billions and billions of them. This means that birds, lizards and other…
Photo credit: Trinity Kubassek by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The website for Noisy Planet , a national public education campaign focused on preventing noise-induced hearing loss in children, retired as of May 1, 2025. The text and illustrations on the website were appropriate for schoolchildren aged 8 to 12. Readers are advised to bookmark the National Institute on Deafness and…
Photo credit: AS Photography as Pexels We are taking a break this week. See you on Monday, May 5.
Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced International Noise Awareness Day . Next week on April 30 is the 30th celebration of INAD. INAD is now celebrated in almost every state and in…
Photo credit: Krizjohn Rosales by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound . It has been known for some years that noise has adverse auditory and non-auditory health effects . These non-auditory adverse effects have been best studied for transportation noise. Environmental noise pollution is recognized as a health problem in Europe and by the World Health…
Photo credit: Clément Proust by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ student-oriented publication on The Learning Network, offered by The Times to teachers and students, asks, “ Is it OK to shush people who are noisy in public?" The subhead states: “A writer claims that we have a civic duty to tell people when they are disrupting others. Do you agree?” The article goes…
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition April 22 is Earth Day. I didn’t know there was an actual Earth Day organization, or that there was a theme for each Earth Day. This year’s theme is: “Our Power, Our Planet," calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy to triple clean electricity by 2030. While not directly related to renewable energy, electric…
Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website reported on research suggesting that tapping one’s fingers in a steady rhythm could help one better understand speech in a noisy environment. In the respected scientific publication, Proceedings of the Royal Society B , researchers from France reported that rhythmic tapping of one’s fingers did…
Photo credit: NAUSHIL | SKYHAWK. ASIA by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Pascack Press reported that residents of the small township of Washington, New Jersey continue to speak out against “the persistent jet noise that plagues the Pascack Valley." The Teterboro Aircraft Noise Abatement and Advisory Committee met earlier this week. Township resident Mary Ellen Stickel told town…
