2012

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  [Mood Riffs] “Please Mommy, Everybody’s Reading It!”

  The current social mood is fertile ground for dystopian novels and powerful female protagonists.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Algorithms Have Biases Too

  Even those Spock-like, emotionless machine-logic systems are prone to distort reality.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] The What That Decides When the “War on Terror” is Really Over

  Virtually no one thinks that the U.S. policies associated with the war on terror have ended — certainly not health workers in Karachi, especially after gunmen this week targeted and killed six of their colleagues (five were female) for “participating in a national drive to eradicate polio from Pakistan.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Not in the Mood for Dirty Laundry

  Too big to prosecute?
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Party’s Over: Ivy Leagues Tighten Discipline

  “The three purposes of the University? To provide…”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Nothing Important Happened That Day

  The most boring day of the 20th century.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Is College Worth the Money?

  My paycheck skipped town.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Magic Kingdom – Bigger, Better and Boozier!

  Why has Disney gotten so animated now?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Big TV + Big Mood = Big Salaries?

  The fundamental flaw in conventional analysis: Projecting the recent trend into the future.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Timing is Everything

  Sometimes the best way to address an uncertain future is to