2014

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  [Mood Riffs] Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There Is a Season

  Social mood influences when leaders think torture is “the right thing to do.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Where to Park All That Money? Credit Union May Be Answer for Colorado Pot Sellers

  Colorado’s marijuana sellers are making so much money that they have nowhere to put it.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Drug-Resistant Superbugs Top Most Dangerous List

  Drug resistance is the “most dangerous emerging disease.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Ebullient Brits Take Spending to Dangerous Levels

  The Chairman of Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility, says people in his country are living beyond their means.
   
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  [Article] “The World May See an Even Darker Side of Putin”

  In this November 2014 update to his original study, Socionomist Alan Hall reviews authoritarian actions by Vladimir Putin.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] “The Ebola Fighters”

  2014 Time Magazine Person of the Year honors “The Ebola Fighters,” the doctors and nurses on the front line against the epidemic.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Lower Enrollment = Lower Tuitions?

  First year law school enrollment declined 24 percent in the last three years, forcing colleges to take urgent steps.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] “Do I Make You Angry, Baby?”

  Daniel Craig, the latest Bond, is “a seemingly much more damaged individual” compared to previous Bond flicks.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Traffickers Reap Huge Profits from Refugees’ Misery

  Human traffickers are making billions of dollars from fees charged to refugees headed for Europe.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] When It Comes to Clothing, Some Millennials Mix It Up

  Mixed and blurred gender lines are influenced by social mood.