Time away from Facebook has its ups and downs, research suggests—so Kira Newman gave it a shot. Published by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.

“Social media is broken.” This article from the New York Times imagines a different reality.

How social media can rebuild our empathy — and why it must. From Scientific American.

It’s gotten harder to empathize; that’s why it’s so important we work at it. Luckily, we can. From Greater Good Magazine, published by the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2001, the GGSC has been at the fore of a new scientific movement to explore the roots of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior — the science of a meaningful life.