--- --- # Social Media Is Ruining Your Vacation by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 15, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 15, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Social media is ruining vacations.**](https://backchannel.com/instagram-is-ruining-vacation-701086a67440) By Mary Pilon in Backchannel **2\.** [**Find out how one California surgeon is giving hope to the uninsured.**](https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/14/california-uninsured-surgery/) By Patricia Leigh Brown in Stat News **3\.** [**Should we teach kids empathy in school?**](https://psmag.com/is-teaching-kids-empathy-just-as-important-as-teaching-them-math-e4a113df3ab#.cix1qwczt) By Max Ufberg in Pacific Standard **4\.** [**Want to make a computer smarter? Teach it to be bad at math.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601263/why-a-chip-thats-bad-at-math-can-help-computers-tackle-harder-problems/#/set/id/601271/) By Tom Simonite in MIT Technology Review **5\.** [**Can ‘design thinking’ make foreign policy more creative and less of a mess?**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-post-obama-world/foreign-policy-has-lost-its-creativity-design-thinking-is-the-answer/) By Elizabeth Radziszewski in the Wilson Quarterly  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Social Media Is Ruining Your Vacation ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4295701/social-media-ruining-vacations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4295701/social-media-ruining-vacations/"},"headline":"Social Media Is Ruining Your Vacation","datePublished":"2016-04-15T16:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:07.119Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4295701/social-media-ruining-vacations/","keywords":["Innovation","Foreign Policy","facebook","Computers","selfie","Surgery","empathy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4295701/social-media-ruining-vacations/","name":"Social Media Is Ruining Your Vacation"}}]}] ```