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Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Unseen Footage, Untamed Nature Filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage she’s shot for the BBC and National Geographic — including brand-new, previously unseen footage of the tube-lipped nectar bat, who feeds in a

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Amanda Gorman: The Hill We Climb Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recites her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the historic inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Her words call for hope, unity and resilience in

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Marissa Zarate: How Community Gardens Preserve Culture and Grow Hope. This talk explores the magic that occurs when immigrant families come together to build community while growing foods that preserve their culture. Click here to listen. How

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! We’re Experiencing an Empathy Shortage, but We Can Fix it Together “Being a psychologist studying empathy today is a little bit like being a climatologist studying the polar ice caps,” says psychology professor Jamil Zaki. That’s because

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Lessons from Past Presidents Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared

Here is your weekly SSA Connection – Hope you enjoy! Love Letters to Strangers Hannah Brencher’s mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural — she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to