Archive for the Education and Community Category

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisin Leah Chase’s New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase changed the course of American history over gumbo and fried chicken. During the civil rights movement, it was a place where white

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! The fire-breathing dragon-horse sparking wonder in a city near you How does a city change when its art doesn’t hang on museum walls but instead roams the streets? Artist Frédette Lampre of the production company La Machine

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! The surprising power of your nature photos Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) In athletics, in business, in life, everyone sets goals. But that’s not the way to excel, according to former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, now an author and TV sports

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! The outlaws of the ocean — and how we’re reeling them in Pirate fishing, oil spills and other undetected crimes are destroying ocean ecosystems — but we can’t stop what we can’t see. Harnessing the power of satellite

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