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Today (July 20) we went to see “Oppenheimer,” a movie about a quantum physicist who built atomic bombs. And, surprisingly, I discovered intriguing facts and possibilities that connected the two of us — yes, Oppenheimer and me — the movie’s famous hero...

By JON HUER

Among all the socially created privileges, physical beauty — typically among women in a male-dominant world — has always ranked high. Hence, our conventional wisdom naturally connects beauty to special blessings that few women get. John Keats even...

By JON HUER

Three years ago, Congress activated a nationwide hotline 988 “for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies.” As you call 911 for physical problems, you call 988 for all your non-physical issues, like loneliness or depression. Stress is...

By JON HUER

What better day is there than our Independence Day to rethink the meaning of our nation’s independence?So, let’s start rethinking: What if our Founders had not won our independence from England? We can wonder and speculate only because, if we had not...

By JON HUER

Amid the uproar over Donald Trump’s indictment, I am awakened by a sudden revelation that Trump is the Dark Angel of Apocalypse sent from Hell to bring the cataclysmic destruction to America. He is the very personification of the Four Horsemen —...

By JON HUER

The May 19 issue of The Week magazine says that U.S. Surgeon General VivekMurthy reported “the epidemic of loneliness” in America. He recommended a nationwide revival of human connections (including 15 minutes of telephone conversations with someone)...

By JON HUER

As legend has it, St. Francis, then an unknown monk from Assisi, visited the Pope in Rome to ask for spiritual guidance. But, as the story goes, it was the Pope who found spiritual guidance from this ragged beggar who made the Pope realize how...

By JON HUER

Our tribute to a great manNo man has held America, and the world, spellbound for nearly a decade like Donald J. Trump. But, at 76, Father Time is telling us that he has already lived the average age of the American male, and it’s not too early to...

By JON HUER

A column by David Wallace-Wells in The New York Times this month, “‘It’s ‘Not ‘Deaths of Despair.’ It’s Deaths of Children,” says, “Americans are now dying younger ... than China, Cuba, the Czech Republic or Lebanon.” Here the columnist is talking...

By JON HUER

Of all things, “pleasure” is simple enough to define: It is the “agreeable feeling” we have when we get what we want. “Pain” (or displeasure), on the other hand, is our inability to avoid what we don’t want. For most of us most of the time, pleasure...

By JON HUER

Often it’s instructional to know what foreigners think of America. Prominent in the Week magazine (Nov. 11, 2022) is French journalist StephaneFoucart for Le Monde who called America a “damaged society,” in reference to our rampant political violence,...

By JON HUER

Just now, national debates are on artificial intelligence (AI). The  Feb. 8 Recorder article, “Educators wrestle with help, harm of AI,” brings the issue to our kitchen table, as they say. The controversy and fear over what artificial intelligence can...

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All fictional utopias like the Garden of Eden or real paradises like the South Pacific (before the invasion of Western civilization) have one thing in common: There is plenty of everything in such places and their human behavior tends to reflect that...

By JON HUER

In tomorrow’s Super Bowl game, most highlights will belong to Black players. Unquestionably, it is in sporting contests that Blacks excel in a society well-known for its racism against Black people. Indeed, why are they so successful in sports, better...

By JON HUER

On May 18, 2021, while processing their divorce, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda confirmed their decision to leave “only 10 million dollars” for each of their three children, a pledge they had made earlier (the oldest being 17 at the time). Indeed,...

By JON HUER

The Week magazine (Jan. 20) has an interesting article on why people fail with their New Year’s resolutions (80% of them by February). Why do we fail to maintain our own self-promises?Naturally, the Week magazine asks psychologists who typically...

By JON HUER

In the news media coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth of England, we learned something about being “British,” as certain behavior was called “very British” and certain others “not very British.” What’s being “British?”The most historically famous...