Noise Pollution

Guest: Erica Walker, Founder of Noise and the City, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Public Health, Boston University The noise on a big city street can be overwhelming, but you get used to it after a while. That’s probably why it was so eerie when everything went quiet during the pandemic lockdown. The Noise and the City project out of Boston University’s School of Public Health is working to understand how noise affects us–and how having less of it might be better for our health. (Originally aired January 7, 2020)