4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (794+ words) For more than three decades, the idea of love languages has offered couples a simple promise: If you can figure out your partner's "language" and speak it fluently, your expressions of love will finally reach them. The metaphor is intuitive,…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (227+ words) On Juneteenth, Black Americans celebrate emancipation from slavery. Every year, we at the Greater Good Science Center take this opportunity to gather content that honors Black history, culture, and well-being, and which asks our readers to reflect on the ongoing…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1376+ words) On June 19, 1865the day we now commemorate as "Juneteenth'the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two years earlier. The news had simply not arrived until then. I think about that…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (752+ words) Hustle culture is back for good, if you take some overachievers" word for it. The temporary pandemic slowdown, with its emphasis on well-being and flexible scheduling, seems like a fleeting mirage. These days, many startup workers are expected to pull…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (531+ words) Popular culture tends to stigmatize fathers who don't live with their children. From reality television to Tik Tok shaming, nonresident fathers are often thought to be absent from their children's lives: "deadbeat dads." The reality is quite different. Nonresident fathers…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (671+ words) Imagine two ship crews marooned on opposite coasts of the same wild and inhospitable island. One group drops seafaring formalities and coalesces around collective survival. They tend to each other, work together, and split what they have. Each person's subsistence…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (907+ words) I sat around a table with a group of fourth graders learning to be mentors for younger students, and a girl looked at me and said, "Now whenever I am upset, I have Buddy and Snuggles in my head." Buddy…...

3+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (1494+ words) Recently, I woke to the blaring noise of our downstairs TV. My husband had been watching it the night before and had accidentally left it on "pause" rather than "off." The sudden blast was startling and aggravating, especially since it's…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1161+ words) It's widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy itself. What's far less clear is what to do about it. Research…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (769+ words) Even though we live in a culture where social media gives anyone and everyone a platform to broadcast their inner lives, people today are astonishingly un-self-aware. Though 95% of people believe they are self-aware, only about 12% actually are. And the people…...