Analyzing Angkorian Compassion Through an Archeological Lens
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Piphal Heng, postdoctoral fellow at Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, offers an alternative approach to archeological research to explore how Angkor was led with compassion.
"Archeology provides a complementary…
Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
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Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
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As a new U.S. presidential administration prepares for the four years ahead, coping with intersecting challenges including…
Bedari Kindness Institute Featured in LA Magazine
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UCLA and other schools are studying kindness as an Antidote to a cruel world. This LA Magazine article focuses on the effort to make a fuzzy abstract an academic discipline for the mental health of humankind. You can read the full article…
World Kindness Day: Good Deeds Have Positive Effects on Mind and Body
NewsRecent articles in Inquirer.net and Malaymail.com, feature the Bedari Kindness Institute and Dean Hunt. Here is an excerpt from one of the articles:
If kindness is first and foremost selfless, as long as it is spontaneous and altruistic,…
World Kindness Day Film Screening of The Antidote Documentary
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World Kindness Day is Friday, November 13. The Bedari Kindness Institute is hosting a virtual film screening in partnership with The Antidote Movie – a documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community…
Vichy’s Family Separation Policy, and Our Own
NewsBKI faculty member, Aliza Luft shares an essay on Scatterplot about the parallels between U.S. immigration practices of child separation and the actions of the Vichy regime during WWII -- and how objections by religious leaders saved thousands…
Dan Fessler’s Interview with the Mentors Radio
NewsDan Fessler, Faculty Director of the Bedari Kindness Institute, recently talked with Host Tom Loarie from the Mentors Radio, about human nature, culture, and the underestimated power of kindness. Find Show Notes here and listen to the complete…
Kindness in Action: UCLA Health’s Humanitarian Aid to Beirut
NewsThe need for assistance remains in Lebanon's capital, so a team of volunteers gathered hundreds of pounds of medical supplies. Thousands of masks, face shields, and safety goggles. Hundreds of bottles of hand sanitizer and soap, syringes, sutures,…
Staying Happy in Unhappy Times
NewsPulling from the empirically based insights covered in her course Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, Cassie Mogilner Holmes offers tips to stay a bit happier during these less-than-happy times. To read more, click here.
Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism
NewsProfessors Akihiro Nishi and Michael Irwin published a paper entitled, Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism, regarding clinical evidence suggesting that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion…