51% Show # 1023 ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - Close your eyes. Listen. You're not just hearing my voice - you're hearing everything around you. And there's a lot of noise out there. Doctor Arline Bronzaft is an environmental psychologist. She lives in one of the noisiest places in the world - New York City. And she's done studies on what the noise there does to children, to their learning, and to everyone's health. What she's found out may surprise you.

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Industry, too, has been trying to build quieter jets, appliances, even insulation for homes - though what effect the economy will have on that effort is hard to say. Doctor Arline Bronzaft is chair of the Council on the Environment of New York City.


Coming up, another kind of noise - the kind that calls attention to an issue.

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Next up on 51%, noise of different sort. Making noise and taking action can often be the best ways to call attention to a problem - especially a problem on the other side of the world. 51%'s Charlie Deitz has a report on two Massachusetts women who were honored this year on Martin Luther King Day for their work with children a long way from the snowy Berkshires.

7:25 Deitz Peacemakers

And finally, it's Artspace. This week we speak to a woman whose actions have been far louder than her words - whose efforts have created a national museum. Wilhelmina Cole Halladay is the founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts...and she's just authored a book that tells how it happened.

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The book is "A Museum of Their Own" by Wilhelmina Cole Halladay. It is published by Abbeville Press. To find out more about the museum online, go to nmwa.org.

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