This winter posed a bigger challenge for institutions in Boston than they had faced in many years. With record-breaking snowfall, schools, restaurants, museums, and other attractions were unable to open doors on many days between January and February. While this winter was especially difficult in Boston, the problem of how to respond to dangerous and uncontrollable weather is not unique to Boston. In other parts of the world, this same issue can arise in the form of extreme heat or flooding. Corinna Graham from the Museum of Science in Boston writes that we all need to be aware that extreme weather can hurt our businesses and attendance figures at attractions and asks, "So how do we respond?"

As an IMAX dome theater, we review almost all films that are released. Unfortunately, we see ourselves turning down more and more films because we feel that the technical quality is too poor to put on our dome. It’s painful to reject a film that has a great story and a marketable subject but looks horrible on the dome. So I am asking producers to think about this...