Insights and Impact Research, trends, and action

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3 Minutes on Extreme Weather

Given the realities of global climate change, are once-rare weather occurrences the future of our forecast?

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When Hearing is Believing 

Joel Snyder pioneered the art and science of audio description: the vivid oral narration of a film or performance for the visually impaired  

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All the News That’s Fit to Pillage 

In her new book, SOC professor Margot Susca  examines the forces behind newspaper closures and layoffs

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A Dad’s Duty 

When his daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer, Joe Zachmann became an advocate

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Wii Love Video Games

Phil Salvador, director of the Video Game History Foundation’s library, discovered his Call of Duty at five years old

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Q&A: X Marks the Spot 

Kogod professor Benjamin Wright on whether users will ever adopt Twitter's new moniker 

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Future or Fiction: Life after Death 

Kourtnii Brown, SIS/MA ’09, cofounder and CEO, California Alliance for Community Composting, on human composting 

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Ladies First 

A first-of-its-kind textbook, coauthored by SPA's Anita McBride, “fills a gap in the academic literature” on America's first ladies