BogelBits Update

My Favorite Bit this week was about the advice that Patrick Haggerty’s father gave him in 1959 to embrace his sexuality and not sneak around hiding the person he is. Ana Homayoun shares more parenting advice about how to disrupt ‘bro culture’ by providing opportunities for boys and young men to develop empathy and develop […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the Science of Happiness, more specifically the way in which your brain physically changes shape in response to the thoughts that you have. This means that by actively focusing on love over fear, acceptance over regret, and optimism over pessimism you can neurologically predispose yourself toward positive thoughts […]

My Favorite Bit this week was a photo series of pictures taken before and after a kiss from the photographer. There is a noticeable positive change in each person’s energy after sharing an intimate moment with a stranger. Using sexual and romantic intimacy, however, should not be the only way women are pictured in society […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about the Kardashev Scale that is used to classify species based on the amount of energy they can harness. Humans currently don’t register on the scale (we’d need to boost our energy production by a factor of 100,000 to do so), but the concept of measuring civilizations in this […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about an MIT graduate and a banker living at India’s poverty line, which in villages is Rs26 or $0.39. During their “briefly adopted poverty” they “found themselves thinking of food the whole day” and even once they experiment ended were unable to take joy in the food they could […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about policing hate speech on the internet. The server company Cloudfare, which specializes in providing protection against denial of service and other kinds of website attacks, had resisted the idea of policing the content of their clients’ websites, until the CEO changed his mind on a whim. When announcing […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about self-improvement through proactive education on the part of Garry Civitello who took it upon himself to acknowledge his perception of black people was misinformed and update his worldview. He was graciously helped in this journey by Heather McGhee, “the president of Demos, a progressive public policy organization that […]

My Favorite Bit this week was about raising a feminist son with advice for encouraging empathy, compassion, helpfulness, and remembering that “sissy” or “being like a girl” is never an insult. In a look at how women are baselessly discriminated against and belittled by society, you can review the legal and social arguments for going […]

My favorite Bit of the week is about one of the original, American social justice advocates, Mr. Benjamin Lay, a radical abolitionist in 18th century Pennsylvania who pushed the Quakers to end their toleration of slavery. Elsewhere in history, learn about Winston Churchill’s problems with money (and the dubious ways he paid his debts). Turning […]