BogelBits Update

My Favorite Bit this week was about how scientists and inventors peak in their late 40s and early 50s and “tend to be highly productive in the last half of their careers.” One example is Dr. John Goodenough who in 1980, at the age of 57, was one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about how younger siblings help their older siblings develop empathy. Older siblings tend to get a lot of credit from their parents for teaching their younger siblings and existing research already shows how kind and supportive older siblings positively impact the empathy of their younger sisters and brothers. This […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about how National Geographic hired a historian to research the magazine’s racist history. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Susan Goldberg, wrote about the historian’s findings: “What Mason found in short was that until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the creation of “superblocks” in Barcelona as a way to reclaim city streets for pedestrians. The idea is to create a “nine-square-block mini village” where the streets are reserved for local traffic with slow speed limits of under 10mph. By routing traffic to the peripheral roads pedestrians can […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about resisting the glamorization of quitting your job to become an entrepreneur. Despite finding success on her own entrepreneurial path, the author works to put her decision in perspective and recognize the various privileges that allowed her to do so. Living an entrepreneurial life doesn’t make her a better […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about a better way to look at every political issue. When it comes to contentious political issues like legalized abortion, gun ownership, and sexual harassment, a large portion of the gap between the two sides of an issues depends on whether it is framed in terms of limits or […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the Frankfurt School of philosophy and how it predicted a U.S. President like Donald Trump. Founded by German intellectuals in the 1920s who hoped that Germany would embrace Marxism, their response to the rise of Hitler was called critical theory which proposes the idea of a “culture industry” […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the least racist people interviewed by Atlantic reporters. In response to Donald Trump’s dubious claim that he “the least racist person,” reporters discussed who they thought were some of the least racist people they had interviewed, pointing to children and civil rights heroes among other candidates. Gross Domestic […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about how judges in North Carolina are cutting court costs for the poor. It has become a common practice throughout parts of the United States to use court and law enforcement-related fees as a way to raise money for the state. In North Carolina, it even costs to spend […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the history of the world from the big bang through the 2010s. In a spellbinding animated video, Bill Wurtz, amusingly narrates the history of the universe from before the big bang to the creation of matter, the stars, and the earth and through the evolution of animals and […]