Celebrating Juneteenth With Tools for Support, Understanding, and Solidarity
This Juneteenth, we're sharing resources that might move us all toward more fully claiming our humanity.
Five Practices for a Healthier Emotional Life
Inside Out 2 teaches that all emotions are useful, the difficult ones included. So how do we accept and work with our feelings?
Happiness Break: How to Relax Your Body Through A Standing Meditation, With Sherry Zhang
Last week on our show, we discussed the scientifically proven health benefits of the ancient Chinese practice of qigong. This week, we practice a…
How Qigong Can Calm Your Mind and Body (The Science of Happiness Podcast)
Studies show qigong can strengthen your body and mind, and reduce cortisol levels. We explore this Chinese meditative movement practice that dates…
Why Caribbean Music Is Good for You
Caribbean music can bring people together and get us moving and dancing, alongside its cultural and political significance.
Happiness Break: A Meditation on Pilina: Our Deep Interconnectedness, With Jo Qina’au
Pilina is an indigenous Hawaiian word, or concept, that describes our deep interconnectedness. Harvard clinical psychology fellow Jo Qina'au guides us…
How Do We Foster Support for Queer Latinos?
Stigma from their families and society can hurt the mental health of LGBTQ+ Latinos. How do we promote more acceptance?
Why Are Middle-Aged Americans So Lonely?
A new study shows that Americans in midlife are lonelier than previous generations and counterparts in other countries. What can we do to address…
Four Lessons from “Inside Out” to Discuss With Kids
The new Pixar film has moved viewers young and old to take a look inside their own minds.
Five Practices for a Healthier Emotional Life
Inside Out 2 teaches that all emotions are useful, the difficult ones included. So how do we accept and work with our feelings?
Why Caribbean Music Is Good for You
Caribbean music can bring people together and get us moving and dancing, alongside its cultural and political significance.
How Qigong Can Calm Your Mind and Body (The Science of Happiness Podcast)
Studies show qigong can strengthen your body and mind, and reduce cortisol levels. We explore this Chinese meditative movement practice that dates…
Happiness Break: How to Relax Your Body Through A Standing Meditation, With Sherry Zhang
Last week on our show, we discussed the scientifically proven health benefits of the ancient Chinese practice of qigong. This week, we practice a…
The Best Greater Good Articles of 2023
We round up the most-read and highly rated Greater Good articles from the past year.
How to Stop the Racist in You
The new science of bias suggests that we all carry prejudices within ourselves—and we all have the tools to keep them in check.
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.