Archive for the Education and Community Category

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger’s Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas — she’s done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction — from smoking to overeating to all those

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth Zaria Forman’s large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility. Join her as she

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! You are the bridge to the next generation “Do you know what you want to preserve for the next generation?” asks community leader Ndinini Kimesera Sikar. Drawing on her experience growing up in a family of 38

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Let your garden grow wild Many gardeners work hard to maintain clean, tidy environments … which is the exact opposite of what wildlife wants, says ecological horticulturist Rebecca McMackin. She shows the beauty of letting your garden

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Meet NEO, your robot butler in training What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot