Laurence Mesirow

Although there has been discussion in this column about the state of mind of a would-be mass murderer, it would perhaps be appropriate to delve further into the process by which a person is...

In the world of movie entertainment, producers have found a new vehicle for drawing customers into theaters to see their films. Virtual reality is being increasingly used to provide a novel kind of movie...

I’ve decided to delve a little further into the nature of the causes of the massacres that are all too common in today’s world. We now have the truck mass murder that just occurred...

There have been so many books and articles written on the Holocaust and from so many different angles, that it is hard to find something written anymore from a truly unique perspective.  However, such...

The massacre that occurred a short time ago in Las Vegas has everyone there as well as in the rest of the United States scared and bewildered.  Scared, because now that such an unusually...

There is a lot of coverage in the news lately of an epidemic that is sweeping the world, although its worst outbreak seems to be in the United States.  It’s not an epidemic with...

At a trade show in Berlin, Panasonic was showing a bit of gadgetry based on smart technology that is going to knock the socks off of inveterate couch potatoes.  We’re talking about a Movable...

It seems that no area of modern life can escape being technologized.  Take sports, for example.  A company called DribbleUp has already invented and marketed a smart basketball, and is in the process of...

Imagine being able to play a game in virtual reality.   Only instead of making one’s movements in this alternate world with a controller in the external world of primary experience, one does it simply...

Recently, on an interview for National Public Radio in the United States, a man was explaining how he had done his own extensive interviews with his father, before the latter passed away.  He then...