Laurence Mesirow
Experiencing Empathy Through A Screen
There have been a lot of articles over the last ten years about the decline of empathy among American college students. As empathy would be considered to be a positive trait to have in...
Trying To Use Animation To Animate Ourselves
How many times when we were kids did we see characters in cartoons and cartoon series and think about how much fun it would be to interact with some of these characters in the...
Mechanizing A Field Of Fragrance
Smell stands in the middle of the five senses in terms of the degree of immediacy to humans. We can see things far away as a result of the transmission of electromagnetic waves. Sound...
The Transformation In The Way People Hurt One Another
Recently, I published another article on the relationship between the configuration of criminal expression in a society, on the one hand, and the configuration of different kinds of stimuli in the living environment on...
Mechanical Solutions to Mechanical Bad Habits
Do you have problems with trichotillomania, dermatillomania or onychophagia? Can you pronounce them properly? All kidding aside, these are just fancy names for hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting. If you have problems...
Revisiting Human Crimes And Their Living Environments
A recurring theme in this column has been concerning how the nature of the configuration of crime changes according to the configuration of living environments. More specifically, we humans start out in more natural...
Losing One’s Touch With A Blackboard
When I was a little boy, one of the most dramatic moments in my classroom life was when the teacher, in order to either highlight a particular point or else to put the knowledge...
The Dangerous Oasis of Consumer Technology
Up until now, there have been certain assumptions made in this column about how humans become robots. People experience sensory distortion living in modern technological environments. This sensory distortion is created by the vacuum...
Robots Who Are Masters Of Love
A new robot was introduced this holiday season with a different focus than that which we would normally associate with robots. This new robot has not been created primarily with what we normally would...
Returning To The Land With Robots
A topic that was discussed a while back in my column was why people living in rural communities exhibited the same pathological effects from modern technology as people living in modern urban environments. The...
