NMNT Book Launch event: CLAMOR: How Noise Took Over the World – and How We Can Take It Back

NMNT Book Launch event: CLAMOR: How Noise Took Over the World – and How We Can Take It Back Join us to hear from Chris Berdik, a science journalist and a former staff editor at the Atlantic and Mother Jones about his new book and why he wrote it. There will be a presentation from Chris, followed by Q &A. He argues that noise is one of the most pervasive, yet underacknowledged, pollutants in our daily lives―one that we neglect, both individually and systemically, at our peril. Drawing on extensive research and original reporting, Berdik shows how a too-limited understanding of noise, focused on loud sounds and decibel counts, has undermined a century of noise-control efforts and obscured the full toll noise exacts on us and the environment. Berdik introduces us to the researchers, rock stars, architects, and many others who are finding surprising ways to make our world sound not only less bad, but better. Rising above the ever-increasing racket, Clamor is an urgent―and ultimately inspiring―call to finally take noise seriously and harness sound’s great potential. He has also written for numerous publications, including New Scientist, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.